Harvard students rigged their Meta Ray-Bans to do facial recognition, 404 Media reports.
Nguyen told Business Insider that the experiment wasn't meant to show that popular Meta Ray-Bans are a problem.
Another goal of the experiment, he said, was to help spread awareness on how to protect yourself digitally against facial recognition software.
Meta's glasses can't recognize faces by defaultA spokesperson for Meta told Business Insider, "To be clear, Ray-Ban Meta glasses do not have facial recognition technology.
Facial recognition.
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