ZuckOff is a free download that listens for Meta’s frames in the crowd around you. It pairs over Bluetooth, spots the wearable, and warns the phone’s owner that someone close by may be recording.

TechRadar reported the tool has drawn several thousand downloads across Android and iOS. The basic version costs nothing, while a pro tier at $9.99 a year adds continuous scanning and a history of past alerts.

The name is a jab at Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, and it arrives days before Meta’s Connect event on September 23 and 24. Meta is expected to show a camera-free pair there, built under the codename Luna, with audio and AI as the pitch instead of capture.

It is not the only detector. Other scanning apps now flag the same hardware, and the pattern is telling. As the frames get more discreet, the tools built to spot them are becoming a category of their own.

Ravers and venue operators have been early adopters. A Toronto club wrote a ban into its house policy, and Australian councils moved to keep camera glasses out of public pools.

ZuckOff does not stop a recording. It only turns a silent camera into a visible one, which is exactly the gap the glasses were designed to leave open.

Source: TechRadar