Reasons for desiring facial recognition eyewear

Subsequently, the software I-XRAY utilizes personal information to search on a people search platform. Through inputting any fundamental personal information related to an individual — such as their title, residence, contact number, or electronic mail address — the people search platforms exhibit additional information, including age, family connections, professional background, and so forth.

The personal data collected is then dispatched in textual format back to the mobile phone of the individual donning the eyewear, providing them with insights about an unfamiliar person without consent.

The initiators of the experiment staged it as a forewarning, an informative exhibition illustrating the forthcoming privacy hazards brought about by AI eyewear.

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