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Exclusive-Meta tool to track employee mouse clicks on collision course with EU privacy rules<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/exclusive-meta-tool-track-employee-163805281.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-29 12:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

By Katie Paul and Toby Sterling<\/p>\n

NEW YORK\/AMSTERDAM, May 29 (Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ plan to collect detailed records of U.S. employees\u2019 computer usage for training its AI models is more extensive than initially described and set to capture non-U.S. data in the process, according to internal documentation seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n

The documents introduce fresh complications for the project \u2014 a key component of CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s broader plan to transform how the \u200ccompany operates around AI agents \u2014 that could draw Meta into a new European privacy fight, rights groups told Reuters.<\/p>\n

The Facebook and Instagram owner told staff last month it was launching the tool to capture how people use \u200ccomputers, including mouse movements, clicks and navigation through dropdown menus, in order to build AI agents that can perform everyday software tasks autonomously.<\/p>\n

The tool, called Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, is pulling in data from more than 200 apps and websites, according to a list Meta shared with staffers. The company \u200bsaid it would impact only U.S. employees and that safeguards were in place to protect sensitive information.<\/p>\n

In the weeks since its launch, however, Meta employees have complained that MCI was consuming so much data that it was causing their home internet usage to spike, in some cases using up an entire month\u2019s quota within days, according to internal posts seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n

Meta also acknowledged in a question-and-answer document provided to employees that the tool would capture the contents of any emails or direct messages sent to U.S. personnel, regardless of the sender\u2019s location.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold said MCI was installed only on U.S. employees\u2019 devices and that its focus was on how people interact with computers, not the content on their screens.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the interest of transparency, we notified non-U.S. employees \u200cthat it was deployed on the computers of U.S. colleagues they may email or \u2060chat with in the…<\/p>\n

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