App shows how Meta smart glasses can help you identify a stranger on the street

Two Harvard students, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, have developed a troubling tool named I-XRAY. This program demonstrates how easily Ray-Ban's Meta smart glasses can be exploited to identify individuals and access their personal information, including home addresses.

In a video, they showcase real-time identification of classmates and strangers using the glasses. The program uploads footage to PimEyes, a facial recognition tool, to retrieve personal details about individuals.

Nguyen warns, “Some dude could just find some girl’s home address on the train and just follow them home." The creators clarified that their intention is to highlight privacy concerns, not to promote misuse. They also provided instructions for individuals to remove their information from public databases.

Watch the video below to see how it works.