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Polish developer Paweł Szydłowski built ZuckOff by buying several smart-glasses models and recording their Bluetooth signatures himself, matching on identifiers such as 0x0D53 for Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta plus product names, then estimating distance. Runs entirely locally, logs every device, allows whitelisting your own glasses. The honest limitation is stated by the developer: it can't tell whether a camera is recording, only that camera-equipped glasses are nearby. An open-source Android equivalent called Nearby Glasses does the same job. It arrives while French prosecutors have criminal investigations open into smart glasses used to film women without consent.
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