Meta investigates security concerns of internal mouse-tracking tech used to track employees and train AI

Date:
Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:10:00 +0000

Description:
An employee-tracking program will be paused, but no one knows for how long.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Meta paused its internal Model Capability Initiative (MCI) after an employee flagged exposure of sensitive data from mouse movement and activity tracking Program allegedly collected prompts, private conversations, performance data, and even tax/medical info
in unencrypted form Meta says no improper access confirmed but is investigating; some employees still see the program running during the pause Meta is pausing an employee-tracking program after one of the employees flagged it as exposing sensitive data.

The company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp , was apparently running an internal program that was tracking employee mouse movements and digital activity. Called Model Capability Initiative (MCI), this program allegedly started in April with the goal of training Metas AI models through employee behavior recordings. According to a memo released on launch, the purpose of the program was to improve the companys AI models in areas where they struggled to replicate how humans interacted with computers, such as picking from a dropdown menu, or using different keyboard shortcuts. Latest Videos From Watch full video here: Personal tax and medical information exposed? "This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work," the memo said at the time.

Reuters reported that an employee filed a high-priority security incident report (SEV) over the programs exposure of employee data, including "full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people & performance data, DSS sensitivity ratings (1-4)." The same publication also said the program
was collecting more information than initially described and stored it in unencrypted form. You may like Meta workers revolt against mouse tracking technology 'We have heard your concerns': Meta workers can request pauses in computer activity tracking, but only in temporary, half-hour increments Meta is turning employee behavior into AI training data

"I have accessed both personal tax and medical information through my work computer, as have many thousands of employees, the employee allegedly said.
We were told this data would be protected and only used for valid business purposes after aggressive filtering."

Now, Meta confirmed pausing the program to investigate these claims. Are you
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"We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we're pausing it while we investigate," company spokesperson Tracy Clayton was cited saying. The company did not say for how long the program will be paused but stressed that it would take time to stop it for everyone, so some employees might still see it running.

As of Monday afternoon, the program was still running for some people,
Reuters confirmed.

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