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This app is a smart glasses creep detector

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24.09.2026

This app is a smart glasses creep detector

By recognizing Bluetooth signals from top smart-eyewear brands, ZuckOff notifies users of nearby AI glasses.

[Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images]

A new app lets you know when AI smart glasses are in the room with you.

As anxiety grows over smart eyewear that can record people without their knowledge, the ZuckOff app works by logging nearby Bluetooth signals and flagging those it believes come from smart glasses. The app has limitations—still, it represents a clever bit of countersurveillance.

Made by Polish developer Paweł Szydłowski, ZuckOff recognizes the manufacturer signatures of Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Snap Spectacles with high certainty, but can........

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