With the success of Meta's camera glasses, there is now a risk of being recorded without consent or knowledge and ending up exposed in a crude video on TikTok or Instagram.
With the success of Meta's camera glasses, there is now a risk of being recorded without consent or knowledge and ending up exposed in a crude video on TikTok or Instagram.
The manufacturers claim that a subtle light on the frame indicates when they are filming. It is not always easy to see the light, and anyway it is trivial to disable it.
To make matters worse, a New York Times report revealed that Meta plans to activate a facial recognition feature for its glasses.
Nearby Glasses reads the information that glasses with cameras (currently those from Meta, Oakley, and Snap) transmit via Bluetooth. If it detects any nearby, it sends a notification to your phone.
Part of the data transmitted by the glasses contains the manufacturer's name scrambled in code. This data is immutable and mandatory. The app also takes signal strength into account; by default, the alert is only triggered when a pair of glasses is about 10 meters or less away. It's not a perfect method, but it's the best available at the moment.
Several of these details can be changed in the app settings. The documentation in the repository (Nearby Glasses is open source) details them.
Important! The author warns that there is no guarantee that the app will work in all cases and that false positives, i.e., notifications triggered for devices that are not camera glasses, may occur. They are more susceptible when near virtual reality headsets, such as Meta Quest.
Glasses is free and, for now, is only available for Android, on the Play Store and GitHub. The iOS version is on the way.
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