Meta’s smart glasses are being used to film people in bathrooms, courts, and doctor’s offices. A new app just released on Google Play is the perfect example of safeguards should be implemented when Apple launches its smart glasses.
The Apple Vision Pro isn’t exactly stealthy. Meta’s Ray-Bans are, and are being used mainly to violate other people’s privacy.
I’ve already talked at-length about the issue with smart glasses. Especially if they’re glasses designed to be relatively unclockable at a distance.
As it turns out, people take issue with these stealthy, live-stream capable devices. There are many ways people are pushing back, with petitions, write-in campaigns, and, in the case of one hobbyist coder, coding.
Yves Jeanrenaud has created an app that identifies nearby smart glasses and pings your device to let you know that there are some in the area.
“I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech,” Jeanrenaud told 404 Media.
The app, called “Nearby Glasses,” does so by identifying “advertising frames.” These are small beacons that Bluetooth devices broadcast
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