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An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
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Meta’s decision to track employee keystrokes and mouse data is causing an uproar within the company.
Key facts
- The workplace surveillance and training AI models is the number one thing,” says Eleanor Payne, a representative of United Tech and Allied Workers, which is helping organize Meta employees
- In Meta offices in California and New York, workers have been posting flyers in cafeterias and other communal areas pointing colleagues to the petition
- Meta’s decision to move forward with its tracking tool despite weeks of protest from employees has become one of the leading reasons for what 16 current and former employees recently described
- While only US employees are currently subjected to tracking, UK employees are concerned for their colleagues and the potential for expansion of the program
Summary
The message aimed to rally support for a petition circulating inside the company since last Thursday that demands an end to what Meta calls the Model Capability Initiative. On one hand, the reporter enjoy using it to write software. The petition, also seen by WIRED, states that “it should not be the norm that companies of any size are permitted to exploit their employees by nonconsensually extracting their data for the purposes of Al training.” In the US, employers generally have wide latitude to monitor workers’ devices for security, training, evaluation, and safety purposes.