# Someone Put Facial Recognition onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Dox Strangers

Source: https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

## Summary

Two Harvard students, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, built I-XRAY, a prototype that pairs Meta's commercially available Ray-Ban smart glasses with facial recognition to identify strangers from their faces. According to Nguyen, the customized glasses also pull other information about a person from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members. Nguyen told 404 Media that the pair are not releasing their code and that the project is meant to raise awareness of what the technology can do. A demo video reportedly shows some tests on unsuspecting people in the real world.

## Article

A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them. The students have gone a step further too. Their customized glasses also pull other information about their subject from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members.

The project is designed to raise awareness of what is possible with this technology, and the pair are not releasing their code, AnhPhu Nguyen, one of the creators, told 404 Media. But the experiment, tested in some cases on unsuspecting people in the real world according to a demo video, still shows the razor thin line between a world in which people can move around with relative anonymity, to one where your identity and personal information can be pulled up in an instant by strangers.

Nguyen and co-creator Caine Ardayfio call the project I-XRAY. It uses a pair of Meta’s commercially available Ray Ban smart glasses, and allows a user to “just go from face to name,” Nguyen said.

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