Meta Pauses Employee Tracking AI Program After Sensitive Data Exposed Company-Wide
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Anna Washenko
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Meta has paused an AI training program that tracks employee keystrokes and movements after a security lapse exposed sensitive employee data across the entire company. The program, which was already controversial due to privacy concerns, was intended to train AI models on employee behavior. The pause comes after the tracking data was inadvertently made visible to all Meta employees, raising serious internal privacy and trust issues.
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· 3 pulledMeta has paused use of an AI training program that tracks its own employees' keystrokes and movements.
This won't make the already-controversial AI training endeavor any more popular.
The program was intended to train AI models on employee behavior patterns.
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