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ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you
https://zuckoff.app/ https://zuckoff.app/
- voidUpdate 6d ago*knows when a pair of camera glasses are in the room
- itqwertz 6d agoGreat name
- simonebrunozzi 6d agoYes, the name is absolutely a genius move. I would bet my money that there's a dozen lawyers at work, right now, in Meta's HQ, to get a sense of what options they have to harass, shut down, or do something else to the creator of this app. And I would also bet that Zuck is furious about it.
- etskinner 6d agoAt least one lawyer looking at it? Sure, maybe. But this is probably not even registering on Zuck's radar
- alex1138 6d agoYou'd be surprised. They banned Christopher Wylie from Facebook. People routinely report their entire team (building some product for Facebook) getting their accounts banned Zuckerberg takes things personally. It's his entire history
- simonebrunozzi 6d agoI can't claim to know more than you; but I think I know enough about corporate america and Meta and Zuck that the idea of multiple lawyers, instead of just one, is at least plausible.
- throwaway85825 6d agoHe's extremely petty and fhin skinned. Remember the seat booster?
- orsorna 6d agoContext https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-used-a-booster-seat-to-testify-to-congress-2018-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-used-a-boost...
- Bluestein 6d agoSomewhere deep in the central European woods, a lonely dev fights for his life, against a dead man switch. Accidentally, a NATO drone flattened his house into glass a week ago. Now, he evades drones, rabid lawyers, train accidents, Starlink honey traps, sudden internet blackouts of unknown origin, regular honey traps, poisoned whiskey, social media bans and dowvotes ... ... if you can find him, you can hire him, and restore privacy and sanity to your apps. he is ... the ZuckOff dev.-
- pferde 6d agoI'm guessing it's not even aware of it. The billionaires all live in their own reality.
- bdavbdav 6d agoThis is fantastic.
- wafflez 6d agoThis is slop.
- pluc 6d agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785429
- captn3m0 6d agoDoes it beep louder as the BT signal strength changes and the camera comes closer?
- Aboutplants 6d agoBring along a small Bluetooth speaker and call out pervs in public!
- amelius 6d agoWait, doesn't it beep for smartphone cameras too?
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- KellyCriterion 6d agoIt says: > Flags camera glasses by their manufacturer signature < How is this guaranteed to be not spoofed?
- dubcanada 6d agoWhere does it say that is guaranteed? Nobody can guarantee that.
- wongarsu 6d agoAnyone can get a $5 bluetooth-capable ESP32 and set its bluetooth mac to one in the range used by smart glasses. Not sure why you'd do that though. The other direction is trickier. You'd have to modify the firmware of the smart glasses to set a different mac, or at least gain arbitrary code execution with hardware access on the glasses. That's well beyond what the average smart glass user will do And at that point, it'd be mostly about the heads-up display anyways. Somebody who is determined to record you without your knowledge has far easier paths available to them. Just get one of those lighters or ear-rings or car key fobs with built-in camera
- IAmBroom 6d agoAre you really worried you might be filmed by an off-brand pair of glasses, instead of a genuine Meta pair?
- ldes 6d agoReading this inspired me that it would be nice if there were a do-not-film-me standard: your mobile phone sends out a do-not-film-me request with a (rotating) hash of your facial biometrics via Bluetooth. All cameras (glasses, phones, etc.) then blur your face in recordings. Similarly, a venue could request a do-not-film-this-venue setting and make sure no photos are taken at a party.
- gjs278 6d ago[dead]
- kingkongjaffa 6d agoThese are social problems not technology problems. We want a society that does not need these workarounds.
- w4yai 6d agoYou can't trust humans to follow the rules. They break rules all the time. Look at the HN community.
- rpastuszak 6d agoHumans adapt and will always break the rules, but that’s not something that can be solved with tech. Think: prohibition vs public anti smoking campaigns/healthcare support/and then increasing prices
- airstrike 6d agoWe also want a society that is less greedy but that will never happen.
- pasc1878 6d agoWhich won't happen as criminals will never want themselves filmed and they are the ones you want to film to make society better and protect yourself.
- eqvinox 6d agoAmazing. But it won't work for long, they'll patch the BT beacons with some "privacy" mode :(
- tkw01536 6d agoAnd even if not - could always make another device with the same company ID and flood everyone with false positives.
- LightBug1 6d agov2.0 ... auto-project two middle fingers at the recording camera, in place of the recorded subjects face.
- mrlonglong 6d agoUpvoted for the best lulz of the day.
- asar 6d agocool solution to a problem that shouldnt even exist I'd say. how did it become ok to be recorded at all times without prior consent??
- hermannj314 6d agoFirst they filmed the celebrities, then the politicians, then the cops, then came the ring cameras. It was a slow erosion over decades, the justification drifting from "they are a public figure" to "they are standing near me" I never knew why the paparazzi could harass celebrities and a few decades later we are all being secretly filmed for a Meta perv database.
- probably_wrong 6d agoA major factor is that the companies pushing for this technology are spending significant resources into making sure your consent isn't relevant. From this article [1] about Meta and smart glasses: > Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find “the right balance” for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns. Now it wants to bring facial recognition back. > (…) The Silicon Valley company has been conferring since early last year about how to release a feature that carries “safety and privacy risks,” according to an internal document viewed by The New York Times. (…) Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. > “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-re... or https://archive.is/65Fze https://archive.is/65Fze
- wartywhoa23 6d ago> We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns And if there's no dynamic political environment or fitting concerns to steal focus at hand, we'll sure as hell fund their creation.
- ageitgey 6d agoCool idea, but why not spend 5 minutes to tell Claude to generate something besides the default AI UI style for your app?
- h1fra 6d agoI was going to say: can't wait for EU to regulate this, but they already did!
- brap 6d agoSorry to be that guy but: >Quiet is not proof that nobody is recording, and a detection is not proof that anyone is Is such claudespeak it’s not even annoying it’s just funny at this point
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- irl_zebra 6d agoThe great thing is that you did not have to be that guy or even spend time making this comment unless you really wanted to. It wasn't necessary.
- bwnkl 6d ago> Own a pair? Add them to known devices Oh, the hypocrisy
- user_7832 6d agoI... don't know how I feel about this. I mean, the concept, sure, good idea. Is it reliable? Perhaps. But... I get a "buy merch" popup the moment I open the page, and there seems to be a pro option for what seems to be a very much LLM-aided app? ...IDK, rubs off a bit wrong IMO. Just my personal opinion.
- bwnkl 6d agoI like the idea of this type of merch that normalizes anti big tech sentiment. But I personally would also opt for something more dramatic, possibly involving a guillotine...on the t shirt I mean
- vitorfblima 6d agoExcept any "solution" that involves AI is actually a win for big tech.
- UpsideDownRide 6d agoIs that true if we move to local models?
- someonebaggy 6d agoYes, big tech controls them. Chinese ones will be trained to say certain things about Uyghurs and Taiwan, American ones about communism and Palestine.
- kdjdkcneixj 6d agoDoesn’t even have to involve AI. Any tech solution is a win for big tech. Simple as that. We’re way past the point of no return now.
- rob74 6d ago...except if it's certified organic open source?
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- ChrisRR 6d agoAre you lost?
- craniumjello 6d agoNo artist tho
- cubefox 6d agoFrom https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-questions-answered/ https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-ques... > Can’t people just cover up or disable the LED? > The camera is disabled when people try to do this. Beginning with our second generation of glasses, the camera is automatically disabled if we detect that the capture LED has been blocked. No photos or videos can be taken until we detect that the light is unblocked. > Since the introduction of this safeguard, we’ve seen some people go beyond using tape to sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED. We are continuously improving our ability to detect tampering, and now we’re updating the glasses to disable the camera if they detect the LED was physically tampered with or destroyed. No other kind of camera has done this and we’re proud to lead the industry forward.
- blondie9x 6d agoThe problem is the LED isn’t enabled currently when live streaming content to Instagram or Facebook. Most live streams can just be captured and recorded by someone else. This is a huge cap in privacy and safety even if the LED was fully functional without tampering.
- solenoid0937 6d agoThe LED is active when you are using the camera. It's hardwired.
- cubefox 6d agoThat's a lie. > Does everyone know when you're live streaming? Yes. A white LED on the front of the glasses lights up while you're streaming to let people around you know the camera is active. https://actionstreamer.com/blog/how-to-live-stream-on-meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses https://actionstreamer.com/blog/how-to-live-stream-on-meta-r...
- snvzz 6d agoBasic modification: Some tape over the led.
- varispeed 6d agoI think this will go like this: - Resistance. People don't like being "secretly" filmed. - Most people will realise it does not affect their lives. - People will ignore it - New generation will accept as something normal to do. Everyone recording everyone.
- cwillu 6d agoMeanwhile: https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-man-reveals-really-killed-club-culture-2054095 https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-man-reveals-really-killed-clu...
- throwaway85825 6d agoA better solution would be a miniaturized quadrf style device that could see radio sources and overlay them.
- dmaa 6d agoUnlike other commenters, I do not mind the ai-ness of this app. This is a quick solution to a problem that we should not have had in the first place.
- gitowiec 6d agopl_PL ( ｡ ♡ ‿ ♡ ｡ )
- ebtebt 6d agoWhat is the difference betwen this and https://www.noglasshole.com/ https://www.noglasshole.com/ ?
- queenkjuul 6d agoThe live music image in their collage is hilarious: it's blurring the backs of people's heads, and presumably blurs the faces of the band, as how would it know the difference Eta: and in their demo video there's a person walking by who's face doesn't get blurred lmao. Bang up job, Claude
- ealhad 6d agowtf is this the demo video really looks ai generated — several weird artifacts, but what bugs me the most is that at the end the alleged glasses-wearer goes through two men between whom clearly there is no space for a third person.
- ebtebt 6d agoI have no idea, I saw it linked here and figured it would have been more or less legit. https://www.pcmag.com/news/modders-can-remove-the-recording-light-from-metas-smart-glasses-for-a-price https://www.pcmag.com/news/modders-can-remove-the-recording-...
- ebtebt 6d agoIt is, however, open-source (albeit it looks dead AF) https://github.com/infinitefutureinc/nohole https://github.com/infinitefutureinc/nohole
- niemandhier 6d agoGood to know, now I need to find my flipper zero and build a small app to use the information gained.
- VeejayRampay 6d agowe really need to regulate fast on those pervert glasses
- wafflez 6d agoGood luck with that.
- flanked-evergl 6d agoYou can only fight the future for so long.
- knowaveragejoe 6d agoWhen people really understand what Meta glasses etc are, they generally don't pick "this is the future I want".
- anonreplier 6d agoBeen around for ages for Android as "Nearby Glasses" app
- tuzemec 6d agoDunno why I remembered "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi. Basically, you had fine-grained control over what others perceived of you. Your friends can see you completely, while strangers can only see a blur. It was an amazing book.
- jan_m_savage 6d agoThanks for the book recom. BTW, I will also recommend 'a hero of our time' by Lermontov. In it, you will get an updated view of what the meaning of 'friends' will be. :) EDIT: since this is getting upvotes, I will also mention that Lermontov is a descendant of the Learmonts, who were British folk. Also, the book is small but it's jampacked with a lot of wisdom--street and abstract both-- and presented using a language that shines with poetry, it shines even through translation (Penguin Classics trans. is best).
- TeMPOraL 6d agoMakes me think of a Black Mirror episode where similar technology ends up with unlucky/unwanted people becoming inaudible blurs in perception of everyone. As digital dystopias go, this is one of the worst I've seen; the episode ending with this happening to the protagonist shook me to the core.
- treszkai 6d agouhm, spoiler alert?
- silisili 5d agoThe episode is 12 years old. At some point it must be acceptable to stop coddling anyone who hasn't seen something yet to allow discussion, no?
- linkregister 5d agoI think OP was doing a "hu-mor" there
- nubinetwork 6d agoSo google can already figure out if you're being followed by an air tag, why can't they natively scan Bluetooth for smart glasses and do what zuckoff does without a third party app?
- functionmouse 6d agoAn airtag is one device that by its nature desperately wants to be seen.
- Bluestein 6d agoLike me ex ...
- iAMkenough 6d agoLike, desperate enough to partner with Kylie Jenner on a failed PR campaign? Meta desperately wants you to be seen in these.
- jclardy 6d ago...because they also are going to be selling smart glasses and don't want to trash a market they are about to join?
- someonebaggy 6d agoSo they should detect all glasses but their own.
- flexagoon 6d agoNot sure why you'd use this sketchy vibecoded proprietary app over the same thing that's open source and existed for a while https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
- colesantiago 6d agoUnless you're selling to grandparents over 50-70, nobody says yj_nearbyclasses or "Nearby Glasses". "ZuckOff" is a better quality marketing name for an app like this, vibecoded or not. The media and already consumers have talked more about "ZuckOff" than "Nearby Glasses" so a winner has already been chosen.
- gelly321 6d agoIt's not about a winner. This isn't CNN, there's no reason, (if you know better) to use the vibe coded sketchy software like he said. We're better than this. Do you really think popular = automatically better?
- colesantiago 6d ago> It's not about a winner. And it is not about being first here. ZuckOff is just a better packaged app, that's why it took off. > Do you really think popular = automatically better? If it gets the point effectively across better than the original. Yes. It is more supported than something that is OSS that will die in under a year. There are features that ZuckOff has that are more useful than the suggested one IMO. For a vibecoded app, it is well packaged with a great name. That is how you get people to use your app.
- pentaphobe 6d agoI'd rather use software which was made to solve a problem than software that exists to "get" people to use it.
- justacrow 6d ago
- ourmandave 6d agoI hope the Microsoft marketing dept is paying attention, because ZuckOff is amazing branding. Instead of Copilot for Counter Spying, or Anti-Creeper.NET.
- markvdb 6d agoGood. Now what about fscking smartphones? There's 1000 times more of those, most with dual cameras and microphones. I have "Hey Siri!" enthousiasts visiting soon. They can leave their iPhones in a nice Faraday cage at the entrance.
- kdjdkcneixj 6d ago> I have "Hey Siri!" enthousiasts visiting soon. They can leave their iPhones in a nice Faraday cage at the entrance. He says, deeply immersed in big tech without even realising it.
- markvdb 6d agos/\ without\ even\ realising\ it//
- IAmBroom 6d agoLoved your scenes in "Call Saul".
- jan_m_savage 6d agolove this. We need more anti-privacy gizmos like this!
- ChrisRR 6d agoSurely this is anti-anti-privacy?
- jan_m_savage 6d agoOh yes my bad. That's what I had meant but I was distracted and didn't notice. Thanks.
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- marcosscriven 6d agoAs much as I despise Meta and concerned about privacy, I’ve not found anything better for recording snippets of my glider flights than the Meta glasses. I don’t post them anywhere (except occasionally to friends or family in direct messages). I fly club gliders and can’t really attach a camera easily. And in any case the PoV is a useful learning tool. I can check I was doing lookout properly, I can see the instruments clearly and so forth. I have a second pair of normal glasses that I always swap to when I’m back on the ground.
- PUSH_AX 6d agoThe principal is a very cool bit of technology. There are authoritative blindness and eyesight medical institutions that are claiming this technology is great for people suffering from eye issues. The shouting match is being loudly won by people decrying the technology however, people can receive physical and verbal abuse on the streets for wearing them which is pretty scary.
- Eisenstein 6d agoThe people who need them for sight issues can paint them bright green or something.
- shevy-java 6d agoThe Spy Glasses need to be abolished everywhere. I was, however had, quite surprised when I saw them used by "auditors" (here, I refer to e. g. "auditors" on youtube specifically). Now this brought a problem for me, because auditors on the one hand, bring interesting encounters, even if they (or some of them) meta-jabait and provoke (again, only some of them at best, in many cases they don't really). But when they use spy glasses to serve greedy mega-corporations, this totally shifts the whole "audit" instantly, because then they also support evil Facebook, Google or what not. And that kind of runs counter to the whole audit-idea. So far I only saw one use the facebook spy glasses, but I wonder whether he even gave any thought to this. I understand why he uses spy glasses, but I don't understand why he does it to benefit Facebook. That IMO puts the whole idea behind audits instantly in a wrong angle. I haven't seen others use it, so perhaps it just was one or few, but they don't seem to really think anymore. Some audit channels were also censored by Google in the last weeks, others were not, but this just amplifies the whole problem here. Imagine if the spy glasses were made by Google. And the auditors depend on Google money. It's really strange. The whole setup does not work well. I understand that they want to make money, but why would I want to support facebook-agents using spy glasses at all? That makes no sense, so I decided when an audit-channel uses facebook spy glasses or anyone else's corporations spy-glasses, I won't watch anything from there. Same with AI content - anyone using AI content I instantly add to a perma-ban list. I recently saw more and more people use AI slop images and AI filters. This is soooooo horrible. These people don't seem to understand that AI slop kills interest. Yet some swear by it - it is fascinating. Those who use AI slop, can not be convinced that using AI slop is detrimental. They have been converted into AI skynet servants.
- puelocesar 6d agoI wonder the battery impact of discovering BT all the time..
- Singletail 6d agoIt only works while the glasses are in pairing mode. This is useless.
- micromacrofoot 6d agoI'm not sure why you think that, bluetooth devices often broadcast their presence even when not in pairing mode it's even on the site > Most pairs keep advertising while worn, so you can usually hear them, but a few standalone models stay silent.
- tonyhart7 6d agoisn't this security flaw ????
- ChrisMarshallNY 6d agoNah. That's standard BLE protocol. BLE is actually pretty secure, but it does advertise, and some folks take advantage of that.
- Saris 6d agoProbably, it's how bluetooth is used to track devices/people too.
- tylerchilds 6d ago“Beacons” are a highly marketed socially acceptable thing in the advertising industry that has permeated the insides of most buildings. Standing too long in one aisle lets them know where you like to browse in the grocery store. When they first rolled these out in the US at least a decade ago I used to get notifications all the time. Stuff like “Near Well’s Fargo? Balance your checkbook.” As notifications.
- micromacrofoot 6d agoit's certainly a good reason to not carry a bluetooth device if you're trying to do something in secret
- phyzome 6d agoExisting, probably less sketchy app: https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses (as linked in the other thread)
- rootsudo 6d agoThis.
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- DaSHacka 6d agoThe difference is using an app to detect hidden camera glasses is legal while beating the shit out of random people on the street is not lol
- redsocksfan45 6d ago[dead]
- countsarabasa 6d agoTurns out assault and/or battery are already very much illegal too and suspecting someone is a wanker isn’t on the list of things that get you out of a charge. Wouldn’t recommend unless you really, really like nutraloaf
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- dirkc 6d ago> Quiet is not proof that nobody is recording, and a detection is not proof that anyone is So, you might sometimes know that someone might be recording? I don't want to dismiss that as useless, but that is a difficult signal to incorporate into behavior.
- lordnacho 6d agoWhy do any of the device's network connections (WiFi/BT/etc) need to be on? What's to stop someone recording and uploading later?
- metchio 6d agothere's no button on the glasses to turn the Bluetooth on or off, so they're basically always connecting as long as they are powered.
- rafram 6d ago> Shows the evidence behind every flag, so you can disagree with it > Logs every Bluetooth device it hears, glasses or not How much AGI is required before LLMs stop putting totally irrelevant technical details into marketing copy?
- edot 6d agoI feel as though it’s inherent in the models, as part of “alignment” or whatever. I’ve noticed whenever having an LLM help with data analysis, especially Claude, it just can’t help itself from putting caveats and guides and documentation inline or in footers.
- soco 6d agoAnd if you correct it, it will mention "a previous version said..."
- Trasmatta 6d agoI also like: > Nothing leaves your phone and there is no account. This is good to know, but it's the exact type of thing Claude is obsessed with putting everywhere once you tell it NOT to do something. For example, if I tell it to commit but never push changes to GitHub, it can't help but leave "Changes committed; nothing was pushed." to EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE. The model just can't help but report back about everything it's NOT doing, and it drives me crazy.
- phoghed 6d agoI like those kinds of updates (as long as they are accurate of course) What’s annoying is the stuff it decides to put into user facing copy, details that they’d never give a shit about, calling everything real, etc
- cristoperb 6d agoI don't mind if models do that but I don't understand why a human doesn't take 2 minutes to proof and re-word/delete them
- baggachipz 6d agoRemember when flip phone cameras were forced to add an un-mutable "click" sound when somebody snapped a photo, in order to try to stop creep shots? We've sure come a long way since then.
- world2vec 6d agoIn the novel "The Mountain in the Sea" (great read, very pertinent as well for the discussion of AGI and what is consciousness), an "abglanz" is like a digital identity shield that hides a person's face behind a shifting weird pattern of colours. I wonder how far off we are from everyone just retreating into higher privacy settings and opt out.
- tantalor 6d agoA comment on the design of this site: I was super confused about what this actually is. How do I use "ZuckOff"? Is it a piece of hardware? A website that I just leave open? Do I download some software, or maybe fork a repo? Where is the fucking download link? Cmd-F for "download" and "install" fail. I scrolled down. Only the newsletter and contact info at the bottom. Do I have to email them? I scrolled up. Just a list of features and description of what it does, but not how do I use it. What's the first step? Please for the love of God. I see a big blue button that links to "the shop". Oh, maybe that's where I buy it? No it's just "merch". I'm not sure why some random piece of tech would be offering tote bags for $28 (!) but okay. I go back to the website and keep hunting. Then I see a row of buttons squeezed in a random location, seemingly out of place, like the designer had a stroke at this point in the process. They don't match the visual style of the rest of the site, so they are easy to just ignore as clutter. One says (in very tiny letters) "download on the app store".
- drbojingle 6d agoZucker no zucking, Zucker no zucking, Zucker no zucking! We did it, we stopped Zucker!
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- solenoid0937 6d agoThese glasses are amazing for capturing memories on vacations, way nicer than using my phone camera.
- gspr 6d agoHow convenient, so to hell with the privacy of everyone around you then.
- solenoid0937 6d agoThere's a bright blinking light on my face telling them they're being recorded - and they have their phones out and are recording anyways! There are a lot of assumptions baked into your comment. What's with HN becoming so saturated with snarky cynical one line quips? I don't think I've ever seen a worse comment section.
- Urahandystar 6d agoIts not a battle you are going to win, This is pretty much the state of things but everyone old enough remembers when the same was said about camera phones, Drones and Uber being unsafe. Eventually usage means these comments will fall and then everyone will forget as it becomes normal.
- Ylpertnodi 6d agoYou expect privacy in public?
- RiverCrochet 6d agoWhy not? Something that can do facial recognition + location tracking + keep and instantly transmit related digital records to a third party should be considered an invasion of privacy even if in public.
- solenoid0937 6d ago
- eecks 6d ago'loud' and 'quiet' is not good terminology for this
- thiago_fm 6d agoThis name is so good. ZuckOff! I wish they'd just make them illegal, it would be easier. Like, if people want to use it on their private property, alright, legal. But in public? I never accepted any terms and conditions for it...
- Ylpertnodi 6d agoAre there terms and conditions for someone using something you don't like, in public?
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- badgersnake 6d agoPerhaps the techbros might eventually realise that smart glasses are a shit idea. It’s not like this hasn’t been attempted before with Google Glass. I don’t have high hopes though, listening doesn’t seem to be their strong point. If they have a strong point.
- knowaveragejoe 6d agoA non-slop and non-freemium variant: https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
- partiallypro 6d agoI think the panic around smart glasses cameras is so strange, it's SO much easier to be a creep with a phone recording. You'll see it all the time if you're paying attention. Everyone is already on their phones anyhow, and especially with "creep shots" your head is a massive giveaway; with a smart phones, not so much, it can be placed anywhere. What practically could someone record without their knowledge that isn't already widely and more easily available through a smartphone? I just don't get it. I do understand recording maybe during a sexual act or something without knowledge, but even that is probably just as easy with a phone. Feels like everyone is focusing on the wrong thing, given that level of privacy has already been eradicated and no one is going to give up their phones.
- mattnewton 6d agoYour phone has to be out of your pocket and raised up to record me, which I can notice.
- solenoid0937 6d agoYou can't notice a bright blinking light on someone's face?
- mattnewton 6d agoIt is less noticeable in person than a phone out and pointed at you yes. And I would react similarly.
- pbasista 6d agoThere is no "panic". It is more a realization that it is becoming difficult to notice recording devices. I assume the most problematic scenarios are private. Private meetings. Private conversations. Private encounters of every kind in general. Environment in which ordinary people used to have good enough confidence that, unless they see a phone or a camera, they are not being recorded. It no longer is that simple. Confirming, at least to some extent, that there is no recording going on may now require confronting the other person. And asking them to remove their glasses or hand them over for inspection might be considered rude. As a result, I think that it might make people more suspicious and less trusting, especially when meeting new people for the first time.
- BubbleRings 6d agoIt would be cool to see an individual US State pass a law to say that recording glasses have to have a visible logo on the front indicating recording capabilities.
- swrrt 6d agoDoes someone want to make this into a product and selling to people?
- seany 6d agoAre there any decent glasses have similar features but aren't meta?