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Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2024-10-04

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Brandon Vigliarolo

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Two Harvard undergraduates demonstrated I-XRAY, a prototype that streams video from Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to Instagram, uses services like PimEyes and people-search sites to identify faces, and aggregates public data into AI-generated bios, illustrating how off-the-shelf tools can enable intrusive, near real-time OSINT on individuals; while the creators will not release code and note performance and accuracy limits, the project underscores substantial privacy risks and points readers to data-broker opt-out resources.

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