NoPeek: A Real-time Bluetooth Scanner for Enhanced Privacy

NoPeek is an innovative Android application that empowers users to detect nearby smart glasses and VR headsets via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signals, ensuring you are aware of potential recording devices in your vicinity.

Understand the Threat

As the adoption of smart glasses and VR headsets rises, so does privacy concern. With millions of smart glasses like the Meta Ray-Ban being indistinguishable from regular eyewear, knowing who might be recording can be crucial. NoPeek addresses this challenge directly, enabling users to identify camera-capable devices before they can record without consent.

Key Features

• Real-time BLE Scanning: Detect devices up to 10-15 meters away.
• Distance Estimation: Understand how close a potential threat is (~2m, ~5m, ~10m).
• Instant Alerts: Receive vibration and sound notifications upon detection.
• Push Notifications: Stay informed even when the app is minimized.
• Background Scanning: Operates silently without interrupting daily activities.
• Detection History: Maintain a log of previously detected devices.
• Zero False Positives: Advanced matching technology ensures alerts are accurate, minimizing unnecessary interruptions.
• Customizable Settings: Adjust RSSI thresholds and notification behaviors.
• Privacy-Focused: No ads, no tracking, and no user account requirements ensure complete anonymity.

Devices Detected

NoPeek supports the detection of various smart glasses and VR headsets, including:

• Meta Ray-Ban Glasses
• Snap Spectacles
• Apple Vision Pro
• HTC Vive
• Microsoft HoloLens

Detailed detection methods leverage a unique three-layer detection system, combining manufacturer IDs, device name matching, and MAC address prefixes, ensuring reliable identification with minimal false positives.

Commitment to Privacy

NoPeek prioritizes user privacy by:

• No Internet Permission: All data remains local with no external transmissions.
• Transparency: Open-source code allows for complete verification of practices.
• Minimal Permissions: Requests only necessary Android permissions to function effectively.

Contribute

Feedback and contributions that enhance NoPeek's capabilities are welcomed. Developers can assist by submitting new device signatures or translations to further enrich the application's functionality.

Disclaimer

NoPeek is a detection tool designed to enhance awareness of privacy risks associated with smart devices. Users are advised to consider it as one layer of privacy protection rather than a comprehensive solution.

Explore NoPeek to confidently navigate social situations with an enhanced understanding of your privacy.