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AI Smart Glasses Can Now Reveal Your Life Story A pair of Harvard students have figured out a way to turn Meta's sleek Ray-Ban smart glasses into something straight out of a sci-fi flick. Using a custom-built AI platform, they can identify anyone just by looking at them -- plus reveal personal details like their address, phone number, and relatives. How it works: • The I-XRAY platform uses a facial search engine to put a name to the face of anyone you glance at through the smart glasses • Then, it'll run that name through more databases to track down other details about the person's life • Finally, it'll present that information in a single, well-organized document • An eerie video shows the students approaching random people on the street and asking them questions about their lives (i.e. "Did you attend so-and-so high school?") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrSXe1cElI • A system that can detect someone's net worth or level of fame could be next on the horizon If you're more than a little freaked out, well, that's exactly the point: The students say they're not trying to invade people's privacy -- quite the opposite. Their goal is to spark a conversation about safety in a world where the gadgets we wear are getting smarter by the day. We've been through this before: It feels a little like the early days of the iPhone, when everyone was trying to jailbreak their devices, despite Apple's best efforts. New technologies always carry risk, which we gradually learn to mitigate over time. The Harvard students say they want to do the same for surveillance threats -- teaching people how to protect themselves before it's too late. UTL COMMENT:- If I catch anyone using these on me they'd be advised to remove them before I punch them. Source: Meta Superhuman – Zain Kahn https://twitter.com/heykahn ................... How to Remove Your Information http://tinyurl.com/meet-ixray Fortunately, it is possible to erase yourself from data sources like Pimeyes and FastPeopleSearch, so this technology immediately becomes ineffective. We are outlining the steps below so that you and those you care about can protect themselves. Removal from Reverse Face Search Engines: The major, most accurate reverse face search engines, Pimeyes and Facecheck.id, offer free services to remove yourself. Pimeyes https://pimeyes.com/en/tutorials/how-to-remove-your-images-from-pimeyes-search-results Facecheck ID https://facecheck.id/Face-Search/RemoveMyPhotos Removal from People Search Engines Most people don’t realize that from just a name, one can often identify the person’s home address, phone number, and relatives’ names. We collected the opt out links to major people search engines below: FastPeopleSearch https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/removal CheckThem http://checkthem.com/optout Instant Checkmate https://www.instantcheckmate.com/optout Extensive list compiled by the New York Times https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5796253-NICAR-Doxxing-Handout.html

The age of 13 is a turning point in a lot of people’s lives. It’s right before you enter high school and begin to be exposed to a whole new world of temptation in the form of drugs, alcohol, dating, sex, smoking and gangs, to name a few.When you’re a kid you can make a mistake that doesn’t follow you forever. But once the teen years hit, your decisions can have lifelong repercussions.Imagine if you could go back in time and tell your 13-year-old self what pitfalls to avoid and which decisions to make? A Reddit user by the name kiwipangolin asked the online forum an intriguing question about how they’d handle such a meeting: “You meet your 13-year-old self, but you can only tell them three words. What do you say and why?”Three words aren’t much, but they’re easy to remember.A lot of the people who responded wished they could tell themselves to avoid a lifetime of addiction, mostly cigarettes and drugs. Some wished they would have let loved ones who passed away know how much they cared. While others would have let their past selves know their friends or family members were in danger.There are a lot of people in the Reddit thread who have some serious regrets. While some of their stories are tragic, they also serve as powerful reminders for the rest of us to watch out for our health, look out for those who may be in trouble and to let our loved ones know how much they matter.Here are 20 of the best responses to the question: “You meet your 13-year-old self, but you can only tell them 3 words. What do you say and why?”1."Don’t fucking smoke." — whateverathrowaway002. "Love dad more." — RealLifeHaxor3."Yes Kimmy California. My sister wanted to move to California near where I was living. My life was really complicated at the time and I really discouraged it. My marriage was a mess and I was afraid it would make it worse. She stayed where she was. About a year later she was killed by a drunk driver. My marriage ended. I would do literally anything to still have my sister here." — purplecrazypants4."Stay off ATVs. Rolled a 4-wheeler when I was 16. Left leg has never been the same." — Cloudkicker91A healthcare worker chimed in with more information."I work in a pediatric operating room in an area where ATVs are popular. Anytime the weather is nice and the kids are out of school, the number of add-on surgeries we have for atv injuries is mind-boggling. 4 year old, shattered femur, ATV rollover. 8-year-old, broken left arm, ATV roll over. 13 year old, ATV ejection, emergency crani. Shattered pelvis, degloving of the leg, brain bleeds, punctured lungs... On and on and on. So much agony. So many kids. It's easily the number one cause of emergent surgery we do.In my book, putting a kid on an atv is about the same as giving an infant a loaded gun for a pacifier." — YamGroundbreaking9535."Keep making music." — douglas_yancie6."Stop copying others." — Kyndron7."Evie needs help. Maybe then I’ll still have my big sister." — Space GeneralAmerica8."Drugs ruined you." — GizmoTheLion9."Brush your teeth." — mynameisusama10."You are autistic. That’s my three words. That would’ve solved so many god damn problems, knowing who I am." — kelcamer11."Go to therapy." — cornygiraffe12."Stay in school." — Julie-Andrews13."Don't trade Charizard." — facepwnage14."No student loans." — TravelingGleeman8715."Wear a condom." — NicksterPro16."Treat her better." — VinFamous17."Never start gambling." — elegantBullfrog241718."Exercise, socialize, study." — LesbianStan19."Happiness isn’t linear. Everyone needs to know this at any stage of life but I wish I was told that back at 13, so I would know earlier that life is full of ups and downs, the downs will go back up, tho the ups don’t always last long." — Evangelion-0220."You'll be ok." — PretenderrenderThis article originally appeared on 4.28.22