If You Don’t Want Smart Glasses to Spy, Try a Bluetooth Detector App
You can no longer assume a pair of black-rimmed glasses is just prescription eyewear.
As Meta AI smart glasses grow in popularity and other wearables join the race, they’re facing mounting public backlash over their hidden surveillance capabilities. Smart glasses can record, stream and process video without alerting anyone around them — unless you consider a tiny recording indicator light sufficient.
Broad concerns over privacy have led to a technical battle. On one side, hardware modifiers are tweaking wearable cameras to make them even harder to spot, often by disabling LED indicators. On the other, developers and privacy-focused coders are launching counter tech to give you a heads-up when a hidden camera walks into the room.
One of those developers has already gained traction with a free Apple iOS app called Zuckoff, a digital detection tool to spot nearby Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Snap Spectacles or similar hardware.
Zuckoff,...
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