Meta pauses employee monitoring program after data protections fail

An extensive program at Meta to gather a wide range of data from employees to train its AI model has been frozen after employees reportedly broke through its guardrails and accessed restricted data, and then did so again after Meta claimed to have fixed the vulnerability. Whether or not the data collection by the $201 billion owner of Facebook was a good idea, analysts argue that the data protections deployed were woefully inadequate, given the extreme sensitive nature of the collected data.