Meta will track employee mouse movements and keystrokes for AI training, report says
Meta is reportedly planning to monitor employee mouse movements and keystrokes, with the data intended for use in AI training. The surveillance would apply to workers using company systems, effectively turning the daily activity of Meta's workforce into a source of behavioral training data.
Why this matters: Employees already accept a lot of monitoring at work. But collecting keystrokes and mouse movements to train AI is different from checking whether someone is at their desk. This is harvesting the physical texture of how people work — every hesitation, correction, and habit — and feeding it into a commercial product. Workers rarely have real power to say no. If this becomes normal, every company will want the same data. The line between 'your employer watching you' and 'your employer mining you' just moved.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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