Meta scales back plan for internal mouse-tracking tech, citing staff concerns

Meta is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for use as AI training data, it said in an internal memo on Tuesday, following weeks of angry pushback from staffers.

New controls will allow ‌employees to ⁠pause ⁠the data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time ​and request exemptions from the initiative, according to the memo, authored by ​Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta’s AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit.