Meta pauses employee monitoring program after data protections fail

Meta paused an employee monitoring program called the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) after employees bypassed its security protections to access restricted data, and then did so again even after Meta claimed to fix the vulnerability. The program collected sensitive data including keystrokes, mouse movements, screen content, private conversations, and performance information to train AI models. Security experts criticized Meta for deploying inadequate access controls (security measures that limit who can view data) on such highly sensitive information, even though the company had the resources to implement stronger protections.