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Harvard students used Meta Ray-Bans to do facial recognition. Meta execs once thought this was a good idea.

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Harvard students hacked Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to dox people in real time.

They used software to scan a video stream from the glasses for faces and identify them using facial recognition tool Pimeyes .

Glasses are more discrete than most recording devices, however, and hands-free.

It's important to note that the facial recognition wasn't executed on the glasses.