Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
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TL;DR
Meta will record all employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen activity to train computer-use AI.
Key Takeaways
- Captures activity on work-related apps including Gmail and social media with no opt-out mentioned
- Discovery risk: surveillance data becomes subpoenable in future employment lawsuits
- Goal is likely a computer-use model; terminal-based agents like Claude Code already have this data
Discussion
Top comments:
- [dagmx]: Active surveillance at scale chills dissent in ways targeted logging never did
- [motoboi]: Terminal agents like Claude Code already capture all keystrokes as training signal
- [stego-tech]: Surveillance data becomes nuclear waste in wrongful termination lawsuits