Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns

Meta has halted a workplace surveillance program that logged employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and on-screen content to gather training data for its AI models, after roughly 1,600 workers signed a petition objecting to the practice. The episode is a pointed illustration of the tensions that arise when AI data hunger collides with the basic dignity of the people inside the companies building it. Whether the pause becomes a policy change, or simply a moment of quiet recalibration, remains to be seen.