Free app lets you avoid smart glasses-wearers in the club
ZuckOff, which uses Bluetooth to identify if a device is nearby, has already been downloaded by 6,000 people
A new, free app is allowing users to identify nearby smart glasses-wearers amid fears over their use in environments like clubs and festivals.
With a name alluding to Meta's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ZuckOff uses Bluetooth to detect nearby Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Snap Spectacles models, and alerts you to the device type and its rough distance from where you are standing.
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Available to download via both Google Play and Apple's App Store, ZuckOff has already been downloaded over 6,000 times, and was created by Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski. While the app is free-to-use, there is also a paid subscription tier that sends notifications to users' phones, even if the app is not open.
"We, as a society, have the right to at least know that someone is recording," Szydlowski said in an interview with Business Insider, explaining that the app works by analysing different pieces of information emitted by the devices, including UUID and manufacturer tags.
"If the unique identifier matches, and also if the manufacturer identifier matches, then we have an ultimate combo there," he continues.
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The app has launched amid concerns over the use of smart glasses, with a recent BBC News investigation uncovering several incidents of users filming women without their consent and then posting content on social media. Ray-Ban claims that it sold seven million units of its Meta models in 2025 alone.
Last month, New York's BASEMENT banned smart glasses as an extension of its existing no-photo policy, while London-based LGBTQIA+ festival Body Movements also added such devices to its list of banned items ahead of this year's edition.
"[Body Movements] is a place for freedom of expression and queer joy without fear. It is not a place for surveillance culture, non-consensual filming or exploitation," the festival said on Instagram, adding that anyone "caught using them at the festival or on the dancefloor" would be asked to delete the footage and leave the site.
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