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Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes

By Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz

Apr 22 2026 6:27AM

For AI training, not performance assessments.

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes

Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ⁠keystrokes for use ⁠in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the ...

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