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.”
At the minute we’ve only really got the scarf that’s covered in QR codes so big grain of salt on the concept of a medusa QR I was on about, for sure.
In terms of real alternatives, blasting out the sensors with lasers seems like the only option, with the mild risk of blinding a tech bro so no real loss there/j
My only actual issue with the program (Other than the innate lack of privacy from having your phone constantly scanning for Bluetooth signals) is that once you know one of these glassholes is in your vicinity, it doesn’t actually do anything to stop them from recording.