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Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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These are the same employees that willfully code the largest spy network on the planet, so it seems like they are willing to believe a lot

Are they merging with Palantir any time soon?

Meta people used to protest and demand Thiel be removed from the board all the time, in the 2010s. But it’s probably not like that anymore.

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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As everybody knows, key strokes and mouse movements are the things that solve problems, definitely the data worth capturing for AI training.

Maybe they're building a simulation of the rich lives and behaviors of white collar office people in the early 21th century, with breathtaking detail? I couldn't imagine life without my unique keystrokes and mouse movements.

Like a museum exhibit?

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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This is going to be a huge chilling factor for employees. You’d no longer be able to disent, or discuss anything non-work related with even the slightest expectation of privacy. Yes they could have accessed logs before but there’s a difference between directed checking after incidents and active surveillance at scale.

Yes, but I cannot imagine Meta cares about chilling their employees. They're deep into the "extract more value" phase and are no longer bringing in the cutting edge talent.

at this point employees should be kept in cold storage to acclimate so as to prevent being shocked from any more chilling announcements. also will cut down on bathroom breaks

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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For context, when the article says "a list of work-related apps and websites," this includes Google properties like gmail, docs, etc, and social media websites like Facebook and Instagram, with no provision for excluding personal accounts.

No one intelligent should be logging into their personal accounts on their work devices in any case - it's always been the case (at least in the US) that companies can do whatever invasive scanning they want on devices they own.

Meta forces employees to use personal Facebook accounts at work.

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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on your phone not connected to corp wifi

That doesn't matter anymore unless they have an SSL proxy. If you have ECH/ODoH anyway.

Lots of those these days. Zacaler has a fair amount of enterprise market penetration.

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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Yeah, if at any time Mark can ask Meta AI ‘which of my employees insulted me today’ for example, that’s wild

I insulted him in my mandatory Exit Interview form from HR when I resigned. It had no impact of recruiters trying to win me back since then.

In my experience at other companies recruiters and pretty much no one else has any idea that someone has been blacklisted, until you do all of your interviews and tell HR to hire that person and that's when they tell you the person is on some kind of shit list and we can't hire them. That was an awkward conversation with someone who was basically told we'll be making an offer soon.

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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Is US mouse movement different from European? Is it called sparkling mouse movement if it comes from California?

US mouse movements are obviously very vigilant, some people say they're the strongest mouse movements ever seen.

Since this is a serious website: I'd be genuinely curious how mouse velocity and trajectories differ between cultural and environmental settings (apart from hardware, that's boring and should be normalized).

There was a time when studies made headlines that were exactly about the relationship between mouse movement, typing etc, and psychiatric disorders as well as physical health.

Obviously, both are related.

If you ask me, Ad tech would probably be able to tell your denominated faith using this data, when there's enough of it...

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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post #64

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No one intelligent should be logging into their personal accounts on their work devices in any case - it's always been the case (at least in the US) that companies can do whatever invasive scanning they want on devices they own.

Meta forces employees to use personal Facebook accounts at work.

This hasn’t been true for 8+ years.

Re: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

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post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one intelligent should be logging into their personal accounts on their work devices in any case - it's always been the case (at least in the US) that companies can do whatever invasive scanning they want on devices they own.

Meta forces employees to use personal Facebook accounts at work.

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