Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Article

TL;DR: Meta is screen-recording employee workflows to train AI, and employees are furious.

Key Takeaways

• Software monitors Gmail, GChat, and Metamate activity on work computers only
• EU employees are legally protected from this; US employees have little recourse
• Normalizing workplace AI surveillance is the real risk, regardless of who it hits first

Discussion

• [moregrist]: Schadenfreude is valid but pushback matters to prevent normalization

  I don’t want this kind of behavior normalized.

• [yodsanklai]: EU regulations protect workers from exactly this kind of stunt
• [ludicrousdispla]: Employees will simply stop using work computers
• [joe_mamba]: Engineers building surveillance tools will eventually face their own creations
• Community split between schadenfreude and genuine alarm about surveillance becoming industry norm.

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