The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent.

404mediaco@mastodon.social

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

mikefordays@mstdn.io

@404mediaco
This will probably work with BLE Radar too. Just need the Meta glasses Bluetooth hardware ID prefix.

Edit: Looks like maybe this uses a company identifier instead of the Bluetooth MAC. BLE radar lets you filter by company, but their list doesn't have Meta Platforms, Inc.

mhoye@cosocial.ca

@404mediaco I feel like this is, if not directly built on, then definitely adjacent to @nullagent 's presentation at DEFCON a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1JSzAdPM8&list=PL9fPq3eQfaaDLMTtVZDqq4aoU97NhZFP9&index=29

atthenius@fediscience.org

@404mediaco @jenniferplusplus

iOS

rothko@beige.party

@atthenius @404mediaco @jenniferplusplus yeah, noticeably absent there. i suspect it may not play by apple's app rules.

eriogonumdarwin@mastodon.social

@404mediaco Hell, I'm considering a second phone just so I can use apps like this.

leadore@sunny.garden

@404mediaco

Now the next thing is to have "privacy glasses" that can turn on a facial recognition obfuscation beam (FROB) around your face and have it automatically kick on whenever it detects "smart glasses nearby".

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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent.