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Meta backs off tracking workers’ keystrokes after they revolt

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 03, 2026
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Meta has backed off a little. After announcing in April that a tool called the Model Capability Initiative would log employees’ keystrokes and mouse clicks to train its AI models, the company has now told staff they can pause the data collection for “up to 30 minutes at a time” or request an exemption altogether, according to an internal…

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