This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

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Paywalled article. Here’s the link to the app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc…

Edit: it’s licensed under a license I never heard of. I’m curious, I don’t understand why it was needed.

“Why draft new licenses? Until now, there has been no standardization of this kind of source code license, even though it has become increasingly common. This has resulted in confusing and overlapping licenses, which need to be analyzed one at a time. Lack of standardization has used up the time and resources of many in the software industry, as well as their lawyers. The objective of the PolyForm Project is standardization and reduction of costs for developers and users.”

Seems like that exact XKCD about standards.

Nearby Glasses - Apps on Google Play

This app searches for smart glasses nearby and notifies you of their presence.

That license looks like Creative Commons Non-Comercial, which is not an open source license.
I know, and yet the code is open source. Confusing.
That’s called “source available”. FUTO basically did the same thing with their stuff after the community rightfully got angry over their use of “open source” in their docs.