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Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.
The tech giant has added surveillance software to all company devices—and employees are not having it. As Meta has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into outpacing its competition in the AI arms race,
Meta staff across US offices protested against the company’s new mouse-tracking software, raising concerns over AI training, surveillance and possible job losses.
The protest centres around Meta’s internal monitoring tool called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), which the company reportedly began installing on employees’ work laptops in the US last month.
The move, disclosed in an internal memo seen by Reuters, is framed as a way to teach AI agents how humans navigate software. Critics say it is workplace surveillance under a different name. Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees ...
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