This developer created an app to detect nearby Meta glasses. It already has thousands of users.
The Zuckoff app detects nearby smart glasses using Bluetooth signals. Its creator says Meta needs to do more to address privacy concerns.
A 30-year-old Polish software developer named Pawel Szydlowski has created an app called Zuckoff to detect nearby Meta smart glasses. The app, which has already garnered 5,000 users since its launch on Apple's App Store last month, can estimate the distance of nearby smart glasses and alerts users when they are in proximity. Szydlowski developed the app after witnessing Meta smart glasses being used to record strangers without their knowledge or consent.
The app works by scanning for Bluetooth signatures broadcast by smart glasses and comparing them to a database of known devices. If a match is found, Zuckoff alerts the user that a smart glass is nearby. Szydlowski believes that tech companies should take responsibility for ensuring their smart glasses do not record without consent, and suggested that Meta could follow Apple and Google's lead by developing an industry standard that alerts users when an unknown Bluetooth tracker, like a smart glass, is nearby.
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