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
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.

"This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work," the memo said at the time.

Personal tax and medical information exposed?

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.

"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.

"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.

Via Reuters

Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/meta-investigates-security-concerns-of- internal-mouse-tracking-tech-used-to-track-employees-and-train-ai

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