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Joseph Cox Oct 2, 2024

New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/

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

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.

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Adrian Sanabria Oct 2, 2024

@josephcox I've got a pair of Meta glasses and I've done some testing/research with PimEyes.

This is a slick setup, but totally unnecessary for casual use - with the glasses and a smartphone, this whole process would take someone less than five minutes to do manually on a single person.

take a photo with your glasses (2 seconds)

import from the glasses to your phone (10 seconds)

upload it to Pimeyes (5-10 seconds)

wait for Pimeyes results to come back (~10-20 seconds).

a few minutes to review the results (scraping name, phone numbers, email addresses, social media presence, etc)

As a demonstration on how this could be done en masse, it's chilling, but let's not forget that any stalker or creep can do it without any special technical skills right now.

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Adrian Sanabria

@josephcox Also, I totally agree that the Meta glasses are an important ingredient in this troubling recipe - after using them for nearly a year, only two people have spotted them for what they are on my face, and that's only because they already own them, or are interested in buying a pair. It's possible to take photographs or videos without drawing any attention whatsoever.