A new app will notify users if smart glasses are likely nearby. The aptly named Nearby Glasses was developed in response to media coverage outlining how glasses like Meta’s Ray-Bans have been used to film people without their consent.<\/p>\n
As first reported by 404 Media<\/a>, the app detects the unique Bluetooth signature emitted by smart glasses and sends a push alert that someone wearing the device may potentially be nearby. \u201cI consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech,\u201d the app’s developer Yves Jeanrenaud told 404 Media.<\/p>\n Smart glasses have sparked increased privacy concerns<\/a>, especially as Meta is reportedly<\/a> working to add facial recognition technology to its Meta Ray-Bans. OpenAI<\/a> is also reported to have a pair of smart glasses in the works. It bears mentioning that false positives may occur, including from VR headsets.<\/p>\n Nearby Glasses is currently available on the Google Play Store<\/a> and GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new app will notify users if smart glasses are likely nearby. The aptly named Nearby Glasses was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[224376,28,132209,8547],"class_list":["post-488494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-404-media","tag-business","tag-media-coverage","tag-smart-glasses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}