ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

voidUpdate

*knows when a pair of camera glasses are in the room

bdavbdav

This is fantastic.

pluc

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785429

captn3m0

Does it beep louder as the BT signal strength changes and the camera comes closer?

KellyCriterion

It says: > Flags camera glasses by their manufacturer signature < How is this guaranteed to be not spoofed?

ldes

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 sure no photos are taken at a party.

eqvinox

Amazing. But it won't work for long, they'll patch the BT beacons with some "privacy" mode :(

LightBug1

v2.0 ... auto-project two middle fingers at the recording camera, in place of the recorded subjects face.

asar

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??

ageitgey

Cool idea, but why not spend 5 minutes to tell Claude to generate something besides the default AI UI style for your app?

h1fra

I was going to say: can't wait for EU to regulate this, but they already did!

brap

Sorry 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

bwnkl

> Own a pair? Add them to known devices Oh, the hypocrisy

user_7832

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.

cubefox

From 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.

varispeed

I 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.

throwaway85825

A better solution would be a miniaturized quadrf style device that could see radio sources and overlay them.

dmaa

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.

gitowiec

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