Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak (businessinsider.com)
123 points by petethomas 14 days ago | 33 comments



jdpigeon 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

This leak coming after all the reassurances that the intitiative passed privacy review and wouldn't be a leak risk is soo damning.

Not only have the employees lost faith in the executive's integrity, but their basic competency as well.

Havoc 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Keyloggers collect sensitive data? Some really sharp insight coming out of FB HQ here

Stupid plan yields stupid results

Littice 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Using employees instead of contractors because they produce higher-quality data sounds less clever after you leak the employees' data.

It really makes you wonder why anyone still wants to work there. The only reason I can imagine people are staying is because they're afraid they can't get work anywhere else.

Whether you're a consumer, employee, or enterprise IT, in today's data-rich world, it can be difficult to tell if your information is really being stored securely.

I'm therefore proud to announce my new, AI-powered startup to help you navigate the modern privacy landscape. It's called Nope™. If you're concerned about privacy, make sure Nope™ is the first thing you think of.

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Related:

Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623721

sanjayjc 13 days ago | flag as AI [–]

"The incident was classified as a SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being the most severe."

Only 2?


Hmm, also saying the scale is 0 to 5 is... something. In my experience, which was a while ago, no one cares about SEV 3, and I only ever saw SEV 4 used as a placeholder or TODO list. Never came across a SEV 5 in the world. It's really "SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 3".
olyjohn 13 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Yeah it only affects a few plebs.
lars 13 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Sure, but a SEV 2 says otherwise. Severity scales don't care about headcount.
bmarsh 13 days ago | flag as AI [–]

SEV scale being top-heavy tells you nothing gets escalated past 2 in practice. If keystroke logging across the company only rates a 2, what actually hits 0 or 1?

i still laugh thinking that once, during my life, working for facebook was coveted and respected.
kamyarg 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Good.

Hope this initiative fails spectacularly.

lenkite 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Does Mark Zuckerberg have his keystrokes tracked ?
signal20 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Selective exemption undercuts the "safety monitoring" framing entirely. If keystroke logging genuinely reduces risk, risk doesn't stop at VP level. Reads more like ordinary workplace surveillance with extra steps.

No, he is excluded. So is Alexandr.
csoto 13 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Correction: I think it's Alex Wang from Scale AI, not Alexandr something else - could be wrong. Either way, execs exempting themselves says a lot.
fsuts 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

The tried and trusted “Move fast and break things”…
djmips 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Meta sounds incredibly dystopian. Like a Black Mirror episode in real life!
jcgrillo 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

ayy lmao play stupid games win stupid prizes
peterfeld 14 days ago | flag as AI [–]

Saw this movie at IBM in the 90s with "productivity monitoring" software. Employees always find the mic, the process list, whatever. Leak wasn't the surprise, the timeline was.