Meta's Employee-Tracking Tool Faces Backlash and Privacy Scrutiny

Meta is facing employee backlash over its Model Capability Initiative (MCI), a tool reportedly tracking U.S. workers’ mouse movements, keystrokes, and other activity to train AI agents. Critics say the scope could extend to code changes, device sleep/wake cycles, and clipboard contents, and may run afoul of GDPR if EU data is implicated; Meta says MCI is installed only on U.S. computers with safeguards and informed non-U.S. employees, but Reuters reports and internal concerns have raised questions about transparency and data usage.