{"id":259549,"date":"2026-05-30T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/metas-employee-mouse-tracking-program-could-reportedly-violate-eu-privacy-laws\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:05:12","slug":"metas-employee-mouse-tracking-program-could-reportedly-violate-eu-privacy-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/metas-employee-mouse-tracking-program-could-reportedly-violate-eu-privacy-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta&#8217;s Employee Mouse Tracking Program Could Reportedly Violate EU Privacy Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2184241\/meta-mouse-tracking-employees-mci-eu-privacy-rules-gdpr\/\">Meta&#8217;s Employee Mouse Tracking Program Could Reportedly Violate EU Privacy Laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2184241\/meta-mouse-tracking-employees-mci-eu-privacy-rules-gdpr\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2184241\/meta-mouse-tracking-employees-mci-eu-privacy-rules-gdpr\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 08:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">&#8216;Reuters&#8217; says the tracking tool could capture emails and chats by non-US employees. <\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Tada Images\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reuters says Meta&#8217;s mouse tracking program for employees could run afoul of the EU&#8217;s strict privacy rules. If you&#8217;ll recall, the news organization reported back in April that the company will be capturing its US employees&#8217; keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks for the purpose of training its artificial intelligence models. Meta confirmed the program to Engadget, with a spokesperson telling us that the company is &#8220;launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications&#8221; because it needs real examples of people completing everyday tasks on computers. Now, Reuters\u00a0reports that the program may have a larger scope than what Meta had revealed and that it may capture non-US data in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company has reportedly admitted in Q&#038;A documents provided to employees that the tool called\u00a0Model Capability Initiative (MCI) would capture the contents of emails or messages sent to or by its US personnel, no matter where the sender or recipient is from. &#8220;If a US-based colleague has the tool enabled while gchatting or emailing with someone outside the US, that activity would be captured,&#8221; Meta wrote in the document.<\/p>\n<p>Meta spokesperson\u00a0Dave Arnold told\u00a0Reuters that the company notified non-US employees that the tool was deployed on the computers of the US colleagues they may email or chat with. Arnold also said that that company &#8220;carefully considered and mitigated potential privacy risks in both the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2184241\/meta-mouse-tracking-employees-mci-eu-privacy-rules-gdpr\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s Employee Mouse Tracking Program Could Reportedly Violate EU Privacy Laws https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2184241\/meta-mouse-tracking-employees-mci-eu-privacy-rules-gdpr\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-30&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/metas-employee-mouse-tracking-program-could-reportedly-violate-eu-privacy-laws\/l-intro-1780145658.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-259549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259549"}],"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=259549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259551,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259549\/revisions\/259551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}