Meta employees protest new mouse-tracking software days before mass layoffs
Flyers framing the Model Capability Initiative as an ‘Employee Data Extraction Factory’ appeared in US offices on Tuesday, with a petition and a UK unionisation drive in train
By Tuesday afternoon, the flyers were everywhere. Meta employees at several US offices walked into meeting rooms, broke for coffee at vending machines, and used the restrooms only to find pamphlets denouncing the company’s new mouse-tracking software as an “Employee Data Extraction Factory” and urging staff to sign an online petition against it.
The leaflets cited the National Labor Relations Act and the right to organise for the improvement of working conditions, according to Reuters’ exclusive.
The protest is the first visible internal pushback against the Model Capability Initiative, the tracking programme TNW reported on last week, which captures mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots on a designated list of work applications.
Meta has said the data is used to...
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