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Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns

2026-06-24 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

Meta decided the best way to train its AI was to surveil its own employees' every keystroke and mouse click, because apparently scraping the entire internet wasn't invasive enough. After 1,600 workers signed a petition saying 'absolutely not,' Zuckerberg's crew hit pause on the creepy monitoring program. Nothing says 'we respect privacy' like tracking your employees' screens for AI training data.

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