{"id":259051,"date":"2026-05-29T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/metas-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:15:13","slug":"metas-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/metas-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s employee tracking tool sparks EU privacy concerns over AI training use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1404116-meta-s-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use\">Meta\u2019s employee tracking tool sparks EU privacy concerns over AI training use<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1404116-meta-s-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use\">https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1404116-meta-s-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 14:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thenews.com.pk\">www.thenews.com.pk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        Meta\u2019s employee tracking tool sparks EU privacy concerns over AI training use<\/p>\n<p>Meta platforms have geared up to monitor and evaluate everyday employees&#8217; activities against EU rules and launched new tools to track their working and performance.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s leading tech and social media giant plans to collect detailed records of U.S. employees\u2019 computer usage for training its AI models that are more extensive than initially described and set to capture non-U.S. data in the process.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia for an AI training initiative\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnkNTz_6xWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\tMeta\u2019s employee tracking tool sparks EU privacy concerns over AI training use<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Reuters, the documents introduce fresh complications for the project\u2014a key component of CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s broader plan to transform how the company operates around AI agents that could draw Meta into a new European \u200cprivacy fight.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook and Instagram owner told staff last month it was launching the tool to capture how people use computers, including mouse movements, clicks, and navigation through dropdown menus, in order to build AI agents that can perform everyday software tasks autonomously.<\/p>\n<p>The tool, called the Model Capability Initiative, or MCI, is pulling in data from more than 200 apps and websites, according to a list Meta shared with staffers.<\/p>\n<p>\tMeta\u2019s Model Capability Initiative collects user interactions across more than 200 apps and websites to train AI agents capable of performing everyday software tasks autonomously.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would impact only U.S. employees and that safeguards were in place to protect sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1404116-meta-s-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s employee tracking tool sparks EU privacy concerns over AI training use https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/latest\/1404116-meta-s-employee-tracking-tool-sparks-eu-privacy-concerns-over-ai-training-use Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2026-05-29\/1404116_115921_updates.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-259051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy","tag-tracking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259053,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259051\/revisions\/259053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}