Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time
TL;DR
Meta is scaling back its employee keystroke and mouse-click tracking programme after 1,500 workers signed a petition. New controls let employees pause tracking for 30 minutes at a time, but the programme itself continues.
When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of technology Andrew Bosworth was blunt: “There is no option to opt out of this on your work provided laptop.”
Two months and more than 1,500 petition signatures later, there is an option. It lasts 30 minutes.
In an internal memo seen by Reuters, Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta’s Superintelligence Labs unit, told employees that new controls will allow them to pause the tracking software for up to 30 minutes at a time. Staff can also request full exemptions from the...
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