Meta Rolls Out Employee Tracking Software for AI Training, Adds Pause and Exemption Options
Meta will let U.S. employees pause data collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions after staff complaints about battery drain and home internet use.
New York PostU.S. employees pause its workplace tracking software for up to 30 minutes at a time and request exemptions from the program, according to an internal memo sent Tuesday. The memo, written by Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta’s Superintelligence Labs unit, also said the company had added several optimizations to reduce the software’s drain on computer battery life.
Employees had reported that the program was consuming enough data to cause spikes in their home internet usage. “While we remain confident in the privacy protections we put in place at launch, which went 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,” Kasriel wrote.
U.S. Employee computers to record mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for training its artificial intelligence models. The tracking is part of a larger effort to develop AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously.
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