Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

The scoop

Meta paused its Model Compatibility Initiative, a tool that tracked employee keystrokes and mouse movements to train AI systems, after an internal security breach exposed the collected data to unintended workers company-wide. The program had faced staff protests over privacy concerns since its April launch; the security lapse was discovered June 18 and initially took hours to address, though access had to be further restricted afterward.