This developer created an app to detect nearby Meta glasses. It already has thousands of users.
Software developer Pawel Szydlowski has launched an app called 'Zuckoff' that detects nearby Meta smart glasses by scanning for Bluetooth signatures. The app was created in response to privacy concerns regarding the surreptitious use of recording glasses in public spaces.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing public tension between wearable AI technology and personal privacy, as well as the rise of grassroots tools designed to counter surveillance.
Pawel Szydlowski recently developed an app he says can detect recording smart glasses. Pawel Szydlowski The Zuckoff app is exactly as it sounds. Its creator says it can detect nearby smart glasses. Pawel Szydlowski built the app after seeing Meta smart glasses used to record strangers. Pawel Szydlowski was spooked after he saw videos of people using smart glasses to record and identify unsuspecting strangers. So the 30-year-old Polish software developer created an app that he says can detect nearby smart glasses and estimate their distance. "There's a need for such an application," he told Business Insider. The app, which Szydlowski calls "Zuckoff," a tawdry portmanteau, has garnered 5,000 users since its launch on Apple's App Store last month. On the app, the main scanning screen gives users the likely proximity of nearby smart glasses.
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