By Surveillance Watch: New App Combining Smart Glasses, AI, and Facial Recognition Can Retrieve Personal Data in Real-Time
by IDTechwire
A team of entrepreneurs in South Bend, Indiana, has developed an app combining Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, ChatGPT, and facial recognition technology, allowing users to retrieve detailed information about strangers by merely looking at them. The development follows similar experiments at Harvard University that raised significant privacy concerns about combining smart glasses with facial recognition capabilities.
Kris Peterson, an entrepreneur and member of the app development team, demonstrated the technology, which leverages small cameras on the glasses to capture data and provide instant personal insights. The system builds upon Meta’s recent advances in AI infrastructure and facial recognition capabilities. By speaking into a smartphone connected to the glasses, users can access information such as names, social connections, and even past events involving the person in view. Read Full Article >
