{"id":1016719,"date":"2026-06-24T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016719"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:30:54","slug":"meta-told-all-employees-in-america-we-are-installing-tracking-software-in-your-machines-2-months-later-it-confirms-private-data-leak-says-that-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/meta-told-all-employees-in-america-we-are-installing-tracking-software-in-your-machines-2-months-later-it-confirms-private-data-leak-says-that-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta told all employees in America: We are installing tracking software in your machines; 2 months later, it confirms &#8216;private data leak; says that we have\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two months after Meta told its US workforce that tracking software would start logging their every click and keystroke, the company has hit pause. The reason isn&#8217;t a change of heart over privacy. It&#8217;s a leak. According to WIRED, Meta left sensitive data gathered from employee laptops sitting open to anyone inside the company, exposing keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots of what was on workers&#8217; screens. Meta is now investigating, and the timing couldn&#8217;t be more awkward for a program staff had warned about from day one.<\/p>\n<p>The data came from the Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, a tool Meta rolled out in April to US employees and contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two months after Meta told its US workforce that tracking software would start logging their every click and keystroke, the company has hit pause. The reason isn&#8217;t a change of heart over privacy. It&#8217;s a leak. According to WIRED, Meta left sensitive data gathered from employee laptops sitting open to anyone inside the company, exposing keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots of what was on workers&#8217; screens. Meta is now investigating, and the timing couldn&#8217;t be more awkward for a program staff had warned about from day one. The data came from the Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, a tool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016720,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016719\/revisions\/1016720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}