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Meta to harvest employee keystrokes and screen data to train AI models

Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 06:31 · 1 min read

Meta is installing tracking software on US-based employees' work computers that will record mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and periodic screenshots to generate training data for its artificial intelligence models, according to internal memos seen by Reuters. The tool, called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), is part of a broader company push — rebranded as the Agent Transformation Accelerator — to build AI agents capable of performing office tasks autonomously, with Meta's chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth stating the long-term vision is for agents to "primarily do the work" while humans direct and review them. Legal experts warn the practice raises significant privacy concerns: while US federal law places no limits on employee surveillance, European regulations — including Germany's court rulings on keystroke logging and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation — would likely prohibit it, and scholars note that pervasive monitoring shifts workplace power firmly toward employers.

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RapplerMeta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data ↗︎
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