There’s a sense of tension that lives inside Kassy Zanjani when she’s on the street or at a café — and especially if a stranger approaches with a smile and what seems like a harmless compliment.
She’s on alert, asking herself the same question: Is someone filming me?
That feeling is called hypervigilance — essentially, it’s your nervous system trying to protect you from an outside threat.
It’s common among veterans, soldiers and first responders, but it began for Zanjani in January, after learning a stranger had secretly recorded her using smart glasses and uploaded the video to Instagram and TikTok, where it amassed more than 30,000 views in the span of a week before a friend alerted her.
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In February he launched Nearby Glasses, an app that scans your surroundings, to a range of about 10 to 15 metres, for Bluetooth low-energy signatures, a feature of smart glasses.
People need to start wearing QR codes linked to sites that brick the glasses. Or cleans out the glasses wearer’s bank account(s).
Not how this works. Qr codes are just text
Most people think all tech is evil magic. One guy installed an app once from a QR code and now everyone’s grandma thinks they can brick your phone and kill your family.