i was listening to Could Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ be banned across the UK? ☞ https://www.theguardian.com/...
in the podcast they mentioned an app that scans for them and my partner asked me to find the app. I guess it may interest some people here ☞
https://apt.izzysoft.de/...
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
The app, called Nearby Glasses, has one sole purpose: Look for smart glasses nearby and warn you.
It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these.
Yeah I think they only put them on the shelves this week
I just went into the local one, they didn’t have them there unless they were behind the counter
Thank you for the care about this quite significant history event...
Considering the relatively recent events... isn't it one those attempts to make a device trendy enough to use it as an option for personal life of people? And this one is oriented on the person's environment recording everyone and everything around them!
So, in the result, people around the person who wears these "glasses" have absolutely no idea they are being recorded, investigated, and analyzed right in the middle of discussion or just by casual a walker nearby!
Yes, sure, "security"... and then a regular "update v9.152.0131r1" and suddenly someone has an access to the glasses and may see and record surroundings of the person by just a click of button! Yet, at this moment, thousands, hundreds of thousands are wearing these...
Perhaps, in another universe... but this one? No, I am very sorry, but I don't trust the most of vendors and manufacturers in this one anymore, and especially the popular/civilian ones...
Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/25184472 (Smart glasses are going mainstream...)
"the point" always depends on how you live and what you need. I will use the app in situations where/when i need to check for smartGlasses.
99.99999999% of my life won't need that verification.
if you're living and working in situations where what you said in private may ruin your public life, you may always keep it on. (which would bring up other privacy concerns related to Bluetooth)
You can buy camera glasses which work with a micro-SD. No bluetooth, no lights, just records. Just sayin'.
I assume this is what the true pervs use to film some of the creepier stuff.
Honestly thinking of buying a pair, to creep on the popo. They don't like being filmed, best to do it covertly.
Solid advice! Good protest glasses.
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There’s cheap ones getting around too. Not sure what they connect to, I think it’s a Chinese mob. The ones I refer to are being stocked by Kmart in Australia and run under their in house Anko brand.
I don’t know if this app or program detects those. I guess the developer would need the Bluetooth code.
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