Meta tracks its employees to train AI, but offers them an exit

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Meta is partially rolling back its plan to monitor employee mouse and keyboard activity for AI training. The company now lets employees pause data collection for up to 30 minutes and request full opt-out from the program. The change follows strong internal pushback, including a petition signed by more than 1,500 workers. Meta originally framed the monitoring as a way to generate real-world training data for its AI agents, but employees raised privacy, battery, and control concerns. The episode shows how AI data collection inside the enterprise can quickly become a workforce and governance issue.

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