There's an App for That

There is an app on the Android Play Store that detects whether or not there is a Meta glasshole in your immediate vicinity potentially recording you.

I approve.

Worried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access to an app that can warn them if someone is wearing such smart glasses in their vicinity by using Bluetooth.

Last week, Yves Jeanrenaud, a deputy professor at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in Germany, published Nearby Glasses, an Android app that scans Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertising data for manufacturer identifiers associated with certain smart glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses.

"This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby," Jeanrenaud explained in the project's GitHub repo. "It uses company [identifiers] in the Bluetooth data sent out by these [devices]."

In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, he elaborated on how the software works.

"Bluetooth devices broadcast small advertising packets," he wrote. "Even though MAC addresses (identifying a particular device) and service UUIDs (identifying what they are doing) are randomized, manufacturer company IDs in BLE advertising frames are mandatory and immutable."

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Pointing out other abuses associated with Meta's AI glasses, and Meta's reported plan to add facial recognition to its glasses, Jeanrenaud said, "This is not a perfect solution, but I hope it's useful for someone. Until consent and privacy are treated seriously in wearable tech, I hope this tool helps someone feel a little more safe."

Seeing as how the app is open source, it seems to me that you could add some features, things like projecting Goatse onto the lenses.  (If you do not know what Goatse is, don't click through)