Overview
- Meta said Thursday it will cut about 8,000 jobs, roughly 10% of staff, and close around 6,000 open roles, with U.S. notices set for May 20.
- The company is deploying a tool called Model Capability Initiative that records mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and occasional screenshots on U.S. work devices to train AI agents.
- Internal lists show tracking on select work apps and sites, including Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, GitHub, Slack, Threads and other Meta properties.
- Meta says safeguards restrict sensitive content and the data is used only for model training, not for performance reviews or HR decisions.
- Employees called the program “dystopian” in internal chats and warned it could surface passwords or personal data, raising privacy and regulatory questions that are likely to be sharper in Europe under GDPR.