Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program After 45,000 Internal Data Tables Were Exposed
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Updated · WIRED · Jun 22
Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program After 45,000 Internal Data Tables Were Exposed
2 articles · Updated · WIRED · Jun 22
Summary
Meta halted its Model Capability Initiative indefinitely after an internal security notice said employee data across 45,000 hive tables was accessible companywide.
Misconfigured access control lists caused the exposure, and CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff the program's implementation fell short of standards set in its privacy review.
The exposed data is believed to include keystrokes, mouse clicks, screen content, prompts, transcriptions, private conversations, and performance information gathered from US employees' laptops.
More than 1,600 employees had already protested the April-launched monitoring program, warning it created breach and regulatory risks and demanding stronger safeguards or a full shutdown.
The incident adds pressure on Meta, which remains under an FTC consent decree through 2040 and is already grappling with employee unrest tied to layoffs and its AI reorganization.