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Meta installs keystroke and mouse-tracking spyware on employee laptops — to train AI agents that replace them

2026-04-21 · Reuters

Meta is rolling out tracking software on U.S. employees' computers to record mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes — officially, to generate training data for "autonomous work agents." In other words, workers are being paid to demonstrate their own replacements in real time. Bossware rebranded as "research methodology." Reuters got the internal memos.

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