An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

Exclusive: Meta employees launch protest against mouse-tracking tech at US offices

NEW YORK, May 12 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O) employees distributed flyers at multiple U.S. ‌offices on Tuesday to protest the ...
PC World

The Ploopy Bean is a TrackPoint mouse without the point

PCWorld reviews the Ploopy Bean, a $70 CAD external pointing-stick mouse that mimics IBM’s TrackPoint design with four configurable Omron buttons. The device fundamentally misses the original ...
Futurism

Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. As if ...
CNBC

Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia as part of AI training initiative

As part of a project to train its AI models, Meta plans to capture employee use of popular sites and apps like Google and Wikipedia, according to internal documents viewed by CNBC. Reuters previously ...
CNET

Meta Will Track Employees' Keystrokes, Clicks and Mousing to Train AI

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...
Fast Company

Meta tracking employee keystrokes to train AI is probably legal. Experts say that doesn’t make it ethical

Employees at Meta Platforms may soon feel like they’re spilling TMI to their employer’s MCI. The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp is installing new software—reportedly dubbed Model ...
The Verge

Now Meta will track what employees do on their computers to train its AI agents

The ‘Model Capability Initiative’ records mouse activity, keystrokes, and screenshots to use as AI training data. The ‘Model Capability Initiative’ records mouse activity, keystrokes, and ...
New York Post

Meta workers outraged over internal software tracking keystrokes, mouse movements: ‘How do we opt out?’

Meta employees are fuming over a new internal tool that tracks their clicks and keystrokes — the latest flashpoint in the company’s all-in push on artificial intelligence. Staffers reacted with alarm ...
The Next Web

Meta is installing tracking software on employees’ computers to capture mouse movements and keystrokes for AI agent training

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 ...
Inc

Meta Is Tracking Its Employees’ Mouse Movements. It Says It’s About AI, Not Performance

A new memo sent to Meta employees announced the installation of new tracking software to capture mouse movements meant to train its ‌artificial-intelligence models. The new initiative will work to ...
Entrepreneur

‘This Makes Me Super Uncomfortable’: Meta’s Plan to Track Employees’ Every Click and Keystroke Sparks Backlash

Meta is installing tracking software on U.S. employees’ work computers that records mouse movements, keystrokes and on‑screen activity to create AI training data. The program, part of Meta’s broader ...