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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/privacy@programming.dev

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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. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

Interesting but I feel like there are so many cameras in public recording us without our consent that these devices barely change the equation. We need a collective solution to mass surveillance, not an individual one.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

could it auto-launch a deauth attack, or send out Bluetooth spam, or the likes?

[–] psyomn@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I remember people calling these individuals glassholes. Would've been a fun app name.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

The app found one pair this morning on my commute and a whole bunch of Quests. It will pickup VR headsets.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it just me or does its top bar with the settings n stuff hide behind your notification drawer so you can't do anything other than click start scanning?

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

I can confirm that issue