Meta investigates security concerns of internal mouse-tracking tech used to track employees and train AI
- Meta paused its internal Model Capability Initiative (MCI) after an employee flagged exposure of sensitive data from mouse movement and activity tracking
- Program allegedly collected prompts, private conversations, performance data, and even tax/medical info in unencrypted form
- Meta says no improper access confirmed but is investigating; some employees still see the program running during the pause
Meta is pausing an employee-tracking program after one of the employees flagged it as exposing sensitive data.
The company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, was apparently running an internal program that was tracking employee mouse movements and digital activity. Called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), this program allegedly started in April with the goal of training Meta’s AI models through employee behavior recordings.
According to a memo released on launch, the purpose of the program was to improve the company’s AI models in areas where they struggled to replicate how humans interacted with computers,...
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