Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as creepy technology. The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with.

The move is apparently a concession to consumer sentiment that glasses are not just fun, fashionable accessories happily promoted by Kylie Jenner, but have serious implications for consumer privacy: They can be abused as surveillance devices.

However, even as Meta touts the new protection this week, the company is also pushing products and features that ask users to hand over more privacy to the company.

Whether it’s training its AI on your images, enabling AI features using your personal content unless you opt out, or exploring ways to continually record or use biometric facial recognition, Meta’s vision of the future seems to always hinge on collecting more personal data.

In its blog post about the camera’s new security feature, the company congratulates itself, noting that “no other type of camera has done this and we are proud to lead the industry forward.” However, Meta also admits that the move was necessary because some people had been using tape to cover the LED light, which had already forced Meta to adapt its technology to disable recording when the LED is blocked.

Certainly, those same types of AI glasses would use “sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED,” Meta’s announcement explains.

In other words, Meta is confirming that some people who wear AI glasses have hidden agendas, that is, the desire to record situations or people (often women) without their consent.

Despite this, the company is reportedly testing a prototype of AI glasses that would “continuously collect audio while taking photos every few seconds,” sources recently told the Financial Times.

Meta’s blog post about the glasses feature attempts to calm people’s fears about device privacy by answering questions like “who can see the photos and videos I take with my glasses?” Meta responds by promising, “You, and only you, unless you choose to share them.” However, Meta’s privacy policy explains that any images you share with Meta AI can be used to train its AI.

Meanwhile, the company faces multiple investigations and lawsuits over privacy violations of the Meta AI glasses. One lawsuit comes after Meta canceled a contract with an outsourced technology company after some of its Kenyan workers alleged they had to watch graphic content, such as sex, nudity and people using the bathroom, while training Meta’s AI using videos from people’s Meta AI glasses.

These are also not Meta’s first problems with privacy violations or security measures.

Meta’s privacy reputation has arguably been tarnished for years after numerous leaks and lost lawsuits over its alleged lack of child safety measures and desire to grow at all costs. There are whistleblower books documenting their alleged abuses, not to mention previous large-scale privacy disasters such as the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and others.

Following the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, Meta now insists on its Privacy Progress Update page: “Since 2019, we have invested significantly in people, products and technology to continue evolving our rigorous privacy program.”

Still, the company is moving ahead with what many people would consider privacy-violating ideas. Case in point: On the same day he announced the new Meta glasses protection, he shared that Meta AI can now use anyone’s public Instagram photos to create AI images, unless you opt out.

It also created features to use Meta AI on images in its Camera Roll that it has never shared and implemented such poor privacy controls in its Meta AI app, leading users to fool themselves by revealing their embarrassing searches.

This is the same company that Apple would not partner with due to privacy concerns, that records its employees’ keystrokes to train its AI, and that plans to sell targeted ads based on data from its AI chats.

So while an LED shield on AI glasses might be a necessary feature, consumers clearly still have plenty of reasons to remain wary of how social networks will use their images and data, especially in their broader AI plans.