Students Add Facial Recognition to Meta Smart Glasses to Identify Strangers in Real-Time

Your Sunglasses Can Now Dox You Faster Than You Can Say “Mark Zuckerberg”!

Harvard students have weaponized Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. I repeat, your “stylish” shades could be secretly spying on you and spilling all your secrets!

These whiz kids, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, decided to give Meta’s glasses a little upgrade. We’re not talking prescription lenses, folks. They added facial recognition tech that can identify strangers in real-time, pulling up info like your name, address, phone number – even your dear old Aunt Mildred’s contact info, all within minutes!

They even tested it out on unsuspecting Harvard students! Imagine walking down the street, minding your own business, and suddenly some dude knows your entire life story because of your… sunglasses?

These Franken-glasses work by scanning your face, searching the internet for your pictures, then digging through articles, voter databases, and whatever digital crumbs you’ve left online. It’s all thanks to AI, facial recognition search engines, and LLMs (those Large Language Models everyone’s talking about).

Of course, Meta is playing it cool. They say, “Hey, any camera can do this, it’s not our fault!” Which is like saying, “Sure, anyone can build a nuclear bomb in their basement, it’s not the uranium’s fault!” The point is, Meta’s Ray-Bans look like regular glasses, making them the perfect tool for covert spying.

This whole thing is a wake-up call. As technology gets more advanced, our privacy is on thinner ice than a polar bear in July. We’re heading towards a future where our faces are our passwords, and anyone with the right tech can unlock our lives. So, next time you see someone rocking a pair of Ray-Bans, maybe… just maybe… give ’em a little side-eye.