Meta Employees Are Protesting The Company's Mouse Tracking Program

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Shockingly, Meta employees aren't too keen on training their robot replacements. Reutersreports that workers have begun circulating flyers at multiple US offices to protest the company's installation of tracking software on their work computers.

"Don't want to work at the Employee Data Extraction Factory?" the flyers ask. They've reportedly been found in meeting rooms, on vending machines, and even in the most sacred of spaces: atop toilet paper dispensers. The pamphlets encourage employees to sign an online petition protesting Meta's employee surveillance program.

The flyers and petition cite the US National Labor Relations Act. "Workers are legally protected when they choose to organize for the improvement of working conditions," the petition reads. A similar movement is underway in the UK, where workers began organizing a unionization campaign with United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW).

It all stems from an announcement last month that Meta would install...

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