"“Don't want to work at the Employee Data Extraction Factory?” the flyers ask. They've reportedly been found in meeting rooms, on vending machines, and even in the most sacred of spaces: atop toilet paper dispensers. The pamphlets encourage employees to sign an online petition protesting Meta's employee surveillance program."
"“Workers are legally protected when they choose to organize for the improvement of working conditions,” the petition reads. A similar movement is underway in the UK, where workers began organizing a unionization campaign with United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW)."
"It all stems from an announcement last month that Meta would install software on employees' computers to track their mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes. The initiative, dubbed the Agent Transformation Accelerator (ATA), is designed to train AI agents to perform complex computing tasks."
"“This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work,” a company memo announcing the program read. “If we're building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them - things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told Reuters."
Meta plans to install software on employees’ work computers to track mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes as training data for AI agents that perform complex computing tasks. Employees responded by circulating flyers across multiple US offices and encouraging participation in an online petition. The flyers question whether workers want to work in an “Employee Data Extraction Factory” and reference the US National Labor Relations Act, stating workers are legally protected when organizing to improve working conditions. A similar unionization effort is underway in the UK with United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW). Meta said sensitive information would be tightly controlled, but employee reactions included discomfort about the surveillance.
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