{"id":828,"date":"2026-06-02T22:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:47:15","slug":"exclusive-meta-scales-back-plan-for-internal-mouse-tracking-tech-citing-staff-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Meta scales back plan for internal mouse-tracking tech, citing staff concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<li>Companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Meta (META.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for use as AI \u200btraining data, it said in an internal memo on Tuesday, following weeks \u200bof angry pushback from staffers.<\/div>\n<div>New controls will allow employees to pause \u2060the data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time and \u200brequest exemptions from the initiative, according to the memo, authored by Stephane Kasriel, \u200ba vice president in Meta&#8217;s AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit.<\/div>\n<div>Kasriel said the team behind the software had also introduced &#8220;several optimizations&#8221; to reduce its impact on computer battery life, after employees \u200bcomplained it was consuming so much data it was causing their home internet usage \u200bto spike.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;While we remain confident in the privacy protections we put in place at launch, \u200cwhich \u2060went through several layers of risk review, we have heard your concerns about personal data on work devices, battery life, and wanting more control over when capturing happens,&#8221; Kasriel said in the memo.<\/div>\n<div>A Meta spokesperson declined to comment.<\/div>\n<div>The company \u200bannounced last month that \u200bit was installing new \u2060tracking software on U.S.-based employees\u2019 computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial \u200bintelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI \u200bagents that \u2060can perform work tasks autonomously.<\/div>\n<div>The launch came during a far-reaching restructuring at Meta and prompted an angry backlash among staffers, who have likened Meta to an \u201cEmployee Data Extraction Factory.\u201d It \u2060could \u200bdeepen Meta\u2019s regulatory troubles in the European Union, \u200bwhere tech companies are facing heated legal clashes over how they collect and deploy data, Reuters has reported.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=826\">Morningstar values SpaceX at $780 billion, half its IPO target<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=824\">Exclusive: SpaceX targets $1.75 trillion valuation including greenshoe option in record IPO, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=822\">Trump homeland secretary testifies before Senate panel amid airport threats, detention protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for use as AI \u200btraining data, it said in an internal memo on Tuesday, following weeks \u200bof angry pushback from staffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,10],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-data-privacy","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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