Meta scales back employee keystroke tracking

While allowing employees to pause keystroke tracking for 30 minutes is pitched as a privacy concession, it highlights the increasingly invasive lengths tech giants will go to harvest training data, treating their own workforce as involuntary, high-fidelity AI training labels.

* Tracking clicks and keystrokes at a system-wide level is a security nightmare that inevitably collects credentials and personal communications, regardless of Meta's assurance of risk reviews.

* A 30-minute pause limit is functionally useless for continuous deep work, acting more as a psychological pacifier than a real privacy control.

* Using internal employees as a training ground for AI agents showcases the future of work: workers actively coding and training the very algorithms designed to automate their jobs.