Meta pauses its employee mouse-tracking program over data-security fears
The Model Capability Initiative, which logs mouse movements and keystrokes to train Meta’s AI, is on hold after sensitive staff data was left accessible to the whole company.
Meta has paused a programme that watches its own employees work. On Monday 22 June 2026, the company said it would halt the internal tool that tracks staff mouse movements and digital activity to train its AI models, while it investigates how a trove of sensitive employee data ended up readable by anyone at the company.
The tool is the Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, rolled out in April 2026. As earlier reporting on the software laid out, it captures the mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes of US-based employees, with occasional screenshots, and feeds the lot into Meta’s models as training data.
The idea is to teach AI systems how human workers actually navigate tasks. The side effect, it turns out, was...
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