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Glasses equipped with facial recognition are in our future

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I-Xray is a tool that links a person's face to searchable online personal information.

The tool is partially a pair of hacked Ray-Ban smart glasses and the PimEyes face search engine.

The glasses have built-in cameras, speakers, microphones, and AI capability.

They can live-stream directly to Instagram and Facebook .

Privacy activists create clothing that confuses surveillance cameras or feeds garbage data into their systems to baffle their algorithms.

The most concerned among us might take to wearing infrared-strobing caps and cloaks to defeat the all-seeing eyes of those around us.

But it's difficult to imagine the majority of the population going to that level of trouble.

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