Meta pauses controversial employee-tracking program after security review

Meta has paused a controversial employee‑tracking program after an internal security review found that highly granular keystroke and screen‑capture data from staff laptops was far more widely accessible inside the company than intended. The program was part of Meta’s Model Capability Initiative (MCI), which collected mouse movements, click locations, keystrokes, and screen content from employees’ work laptops to help train internal AI systems. The program also introduced an obvious risk.