Facebook employee data exposed in Meta's own surveillance program
A while ago, we talked about the fact that Meta's employees were upset that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to watch them use their computers while they were on the clock. It's irony so delicious you wanna eat it with a ladle. 1,600 of Meta's minions signed a petition against being treated the same way that Meta has been treating Facebook users for years. But it wasn't enough to keep Zuckerberg's worker-watching Model Capability Initiative from being implemented. Meta ignored them and installed their mouse click monitoring software on all the laptops in the company anyway, and well…
The tech publication Wired reported this week that MCI data collected from corporate laptops had been accessible to anyone inside the company. It cited an internal security notice that referred to the exposure of data tables including "full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people and performance data".
Meta confirmed the program has been paused."We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we're pausing it while we investigate," the company said in a statement.
You'd think that seeing MCI fall on its face would make the workers that signed the petition happy. Some people just refuse to be pleased. One of Facebook's solutions for fixing the shitty spook software? Have Meta's engineers—the same ones who signed the petition against MCI—pitch in to make it a better tool, more secure surveillance package.
