Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program
Key takeaways
- Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confirms the company is investigating the security issue.
- The security notice sent out Monday indicated that “employee data across 45,000 hive tables,” had been exposed.
- In one internal forum where staffers are known to trade jokes, an employee posted a meme from The Office of the character Jim Halpert holding a sign that reads, “0 days since our last nonsense.”
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
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The data, which was collected as part of a divisive initiative to train artificial intelligence models, is believed to include keystrokes, mouseclicks, and content displayed on the computer screens of Meta’s US employees.
Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confirms the company is investigating the security issue. "We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards,” he says, adding, “we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees.”