ZuckOff app detects camera glasses via Bluetooth signals
A new privacy tool alerts users when Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles and similar devices are nearby.
What to know
- ZuckOff detects camera-equipped glasses by identifying their Bluetooth broadcasts; no account or data transmission required.
- The app currently covers Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Snap Spectacles, with developers requesting hardware loans to expand coverage.
- It is independent and unaffiliated with Meta, Ray-Ban, Oakley, or Snap.
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ZuckOff app launches to detect camera glasses
ZuckOff, an independent app, becomes available to help users identify when camera-equipped smart glasses are nearby. The app detects Bluetooth signals from Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles and similar devices, with all processing happening on the user's phone and no account required.
“Camera glasses announce themselves over Bluetooth. ZuckOff listens for that and tells you when Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles or similar hardware is nearby. Nothing leaves your phone and there is no account.”
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first by HN Best, 3d ago · also HN Frontpage
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A 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…
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Reading 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…
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I... 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.
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What people are saying 19 voices from 1 site · best of 23 · verbatim
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It 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.
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hey guyz! i just built a tiny, minimal coding agent called hazzel. you can check it, star or contribute in it if you find it intresting. the source code:-
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"even worse", I searched "nearby glasses" on app store, and it's 2nd, under the ad sponsored "ZuckOff"and so I leave this comment as off topic, but, is it pretty easy to get your new app to appear in that ad slot, above the main contender?
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Remember 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.
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Nearby Glasses is also free on the iOS App Store while ZuckOff contains in-app purchases
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I love how even all the copy on the site is clearly AI generated. We're starting to completely lose even our ability to write a single paragraph of descriptive text.
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According to the android app store, Nearby Glasses doesn't collect any data, while ZuckOff collects app activity.Why would I want a bluetooth scanner to phone home? Seems untrustworthy. Nearby Glasses wins from a data safety perspective.
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> Shows the evidence behind every flag, so you can disagree with it> Logs every Bluetooth device it hears, glasses or notHow much AGI is required before LLMs stop putting totally irrelevant technical details into marketing copy?
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Vibecoders don't even bother to use google. They don't have a clue that there might be already better solution.
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Because I read about it in a place I trust that isn't github, and only care about the perverts, not the code?
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> Quiet is not proof that nobody is recording, and a detection is not proof that anyone isSo, 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.
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Nobody says yj_nearbyclasses or "Nearby Glasses""ZuckOff" is a better quality marketing name for an app like this, vibecoded or not.
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I hope the Microsoft marketing dept is paying attention, because ZuckOff is amazing branding.Instead of Copilot for Counter Spying, or Anti-Creeper.NET.
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Not sure why you'd use this sketchy vibecoded proprietary app over the same thing that's open source and existed for a while
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So 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?
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Dunno 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.
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Good to know, now I need to find my flipper zero and build a small app to use the information gained.
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Unlike 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.
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cool 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??