College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
Two Harvard students have created an eerie demo of how smart glasses can use facial recognition tech to instantly dox people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. The most unsettling part is the demo uses current, widely available technology like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and public databases.
AnhPhu Nguyen, one of the two students, posted a video showcasing the tech in action that was then picked up by 404 Media. Dubbed I-XRAY, the tech works by using the Meta smart glasses’ ability to livestream video to Instagram. A computer program then monitors that stream and uses AI to identify faces. Those photos are then fed into public databases to find names, addresses, phone numbers, and even relatives. That information is then fed back through a phone app.
In the demo, you can see Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the other student behind the project, use the glasses to identify several classmates, their addresses, and names of relatives in real time. Perhaps more chilling, Nguyen and Ardayfio are also shown chatting up complete strangers on public transit, pretending as if they know them based on information gleaned from the tech...
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Well there's your problem right there
No actually, in this case Meta just built a phone into a glasses form factor. The entire problem lies with that much data about individuals being allowed to be amassed (apparently even in publicly accessible databases).
You can literally do exactly this with your iPhone and a lanyard right now.
We live in a massive police state already. People just don't realize it yet.
If they didn't figure that out in 2020, they'll never realize it.
We do! But it's interesting that crime is down at the same time.
I did a lot of stupid shit in my youth. Many of us did in the 80s and 90s. Doing that same stupid shit knowing you're on camera somewhere?
Certainly worthy of discussion.
I'm never leaving the house again. I mean, I kind of wanted to do that anyway, but this is the excuse I needed.
But what about touching grass?
Bring the grass inside. Next question
But what about touching ass?
Bring the ass inside. Next question
What about touching ass that is sitting on grass?
This wasn't the part of the gritty cyberpunk future I wanted. Where the hell is my skateboard with smartwheels and my nuclear powered gatling gun?
I read that book about 30 years ago! I didn't remember the eye-scanning gargoyle, but for some reason I still remember the phrase "Ultima Ratio Regum" from the nuclear powered gun.
Surely, they'll listen to Reason.
Snowcrash, such a good book
Potentially fashionable solution:
Get your own glasses, get some sufficiently powerdul IR emitting LEDs, attach them to the frame, wire them to a battery.
Result: Most cameras will see your face as a blinding white spot.
Apparently 'Reflectables' claims to achieve a similar result passively, with reflective frames and lenses.
I've heard of coats with that passively blinding IR effect before, though the active one is basically IRCM or infrared dazzlers. Another option would be asymmetric makeup with sharp geometric shapes - anything that would help break up the normal identifiers of a face. I remember seeing this proposed many years ago as a countermeasure to facial recognition software.
Public databases have photos of people's faces? Or do they mean private but with access available for purchase? I didn't think those had photos either but I've never paid for access so I don't know.
I have not come across facial recognition software that contains Facebook pictures in its database. I don't mean to be creepy, but I'm curious about which software you're referring to.
They did mention a name. Publicly available database called PimEyes apparently.
That and the following make me suspect that this is a faked publicity stunt rather than a real prototype.
It's in the article. Public database called PimEyes.
It doesn't go into much more detail than that. Says it's an open to the public face searching database.
PimEyes doesn't search Facebook. You can try it for yourself. It will show you matching faces for free, but you have to pay to find out where it found them.
Fair. I presume that they meant publicly available in the sense that it was accessible to the public, not in the sense that it was necessarily free.
The article says they are using PimEyes, which I assume means that they're paying for a subscription.
These things are going to get people punched in the face.
Glassholes v2
Combine with https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28859174 for happy fun times
It uses PimEyes which I find absolutely terrifying. Found photos of myself when I was a child on some obscure newspaper article (or article archive?) with a current photo of myself (at least 10 years apart). I knew of course before that state actors definitely are able to use stuff like this but I don't like that everyone willing to pay can just find out who you are.
Humanity may be forced into radical openness.
This is, as far as I can tell, tangentially related to this form of dialectical behavioural therapy (RO-DBT).
Watchdogs level shit