The search engine uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for facial recognition combined with reverse image search technology to find other photos of a person published online, based on a picture submitted by the user. The Harvard students have dubbed the system I-XRAY and it works like this: When you look at someone’s face through the glasses—they used Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses—a connected Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform will look up that face on the internet and pull up all the information it can find about the person. In 2023, the New York Times published a story about “the technology Facebook and Google didn’t dare release” about how the two companies stopped development of technology that used facial recognition to identify people. Like something out of Black Mirror, two students have demonstrated a way to use smart glasses and facial recognition technology to immediately reveal people’s names, phone numbers, and addresses. The facial recognition software and surveillance company was known for scraping images of people from social networking sites, particularly Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, and other websites. Also in 2022, a company called PimEyes was accused of “surveillance and stalking on a scale previously unimaginable.” PimEyes is an online face search engine that searches the internet to find pictures of particular faces. Now, Clearview sells its product to law enforcement, and it’s also explored a pair of smart glasses that would run its facial recognition technology. In the demo, the students claim they were able to identify dozens of people without their knowledge, although in some cases the system gave the wrong name.
This Cyber News was published on www.malwarebytes.com. Publication date: Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:43:05 +0000