alt.hn

6/22/2026 at 9:43:22 PM

Meta pauses AI training program tracking employee keystrokes after internal leak

 https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-training-data-leak-exposed-employee-activity-across-company-2026-6

by petethomas

6/23/2026 at 12:50:08 AM

This leak coming after all the reassurances that the intitiative passed privacy review and wouldn't be a leak risk is soo damning.

Not only have the employees lost faith in the executive's integrity, but their basic competency as well.

by jdpigeon

6/23/2026 at 6:49:20 AM

Does anyone, ever, have any faith in the integrity or competence of executives, these days? Because it seems to me that most people would outright prefer them to burn but are powerless against the increasing abuses and betrayals of employees.

by Llamamoe

6/23/2026 at 2:12:20 PM

20% of the people will always just agree with the guy with the microphone.

by notnaut

6/24/2026 at 1:35:20 AM

seems to me that 20% of people agreeing, and the remaining 80% staying silent (or 79% with 1% vocal), leads to the abuse cycle continuing.

The silent majority creates a false feeling of large consensus and inability to know the reality.

by mannanj

6/23/2026 at 7:43:23 PM

In the history of humanity management has never been competent at scale. Entropy gives rise to signal attenuation which gives rise to generational churn which collapses empires and businesses

All these people had was ZIRP and preferential taxation, and the even more ignorant masses imaginations to manipulate

The ability has never been there because no real goal is there to build around; endless forever existence of Facebook and Meta? So like with Christianity, 2000 years from now people need to keep preaching to Saint Zuck's mind palace?

That's not a real goal. Most SaaS companies existed only to serve a political meme of "create jobs".

by anecd4t4

6/23/2026 at 2:45:58 AM

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by snootypoot

6/23/2026 at 12:08:24 AM

Keyloggers collect sensitive data? Some really sharp insight coming out of FB HQ here

Stupid plan yields stupid results

by Havoc

6/23/2026 at 12:05:52 AM

Using employees instead of contractors because they produce higher-quality data sounds less clever after you leak the employees' data.

by Littice

6/23/2026 at 2:00:58 AM

It really makes you wonder why anyone still wants to work there. The only reason I can imagine people are staying is because they're afraid they can't get work anywhere else.

by timmytokyo

6/23/2026 at 2:11:45 AM

Money. It's not complicated.

by 2OEH8eoCRo0

6/23/2026 at 2:07:12 AM

It’s a terrible job market and they pay notoriously well.

by hawaiianbrah

6/23/2026 at 2:48:13 AM

No, the right framing is they are paid what they deserve.

The premium they get paid is for being treating like shit.

Anyone who has any sympathy for them is an absolute idiot.

by ss4fff

6/23/2026 at 4:29:00 AM

Why aren't they deserving of sympathy? Crazy take and a massive lack of empathy.

by patch_dev

6/23/2026 at 5:18:35 AM

Facebook is widely thought to cause significant societal damage; anyone who thinks so, would probably consider employees of Meta to be the ones lacking empathy.

by stiglitz

6/23/2026 at 8:29:48 AM

So Facebook products are definitely not good for humans to use, sort of like cane sugar is not good for humans to use, but I wonder if you also think this about, I dunno, banks? They do vastly more predatory stuff with much bigger impacts. Nobody’s Facebook usage is affecting how much housing costs, for example. But for some reason there seems to be more outrage at social media companies. Odd!

by pfannkuchen

6/24/2026 at 2:53:58 AM

I’m not sure what this style of rhetoric is called but Matt Bors popularized it in his comic “Mister Gotcha”.

And we can be against banks being predatory and Meta. Coincidentally on a thread about Meta the topic is more about them than banks.

by conception

6/23/2026 at 11:05:31 AM

If they do it, then we can do it too.

So lets bomb some sucker nation or assassinate folks we summarily don't like, without due process. F'k it, if they do it, then we can also do it.

How does that make anything better? It results in a degradation of societal values where morals and positive norms are assigned to the pages of history.

There was a time when positive examples, folks standing up and resisting was seen as a something good. Nowadays everyone just does it because the others are even worse. So who should start making the world a better place? The others.

by Towaway69

6/23/2026 at 5:28:24 AM

Because they know what they are signing up for? I’ve only interviewed at Meta for practice even though I could earn ~250k a year more working there.

by jfrbfbreudh

6/23/2026 at 4:43:06 AM

This is true at all of big tech. Management class is assholes. It’s been like this for too long.

by qsxfthnkp2322

6/23/2026 at 1:46:01 PM

"The incident was classified as a SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 5, with 0 being the most severe."

Only 2?

by sanjayjc

6/24/2026 at 2:15:51 AM

Hmm, also saying the scale is 0 to 5 is... something. In my experience, which was a while ago, no one cares about SEV 3, and I only ever saw SEV 4 used as a placeholder or TODO list. Never came across a SEV 5 in the world. It's really "SEV 2 on a scale of 0 to 3".

by throwyawayyyy

6/24/2026 at 1:22:43 AM

Yeah it only affects a few plebs.

by olyjohn

6/24/2026 at 1:35:02 AM

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6/23/2026 at 1:00:06 AM

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6/23/2026 at 1:46:42 AM

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by CoastalCoder

6/23/2026 at 2:44:55 AM

i still laugh thinking that once, during my life, working for facebook was coveted and respected.

by snootypoot

6/22/2026 at 11:43:34 PM

Good.

Hope this initiative fails spectacularly.

by kamyarg

6/23/2026 at 4:46:22 AM

Does Mark Zuckerberg have his keystrokes tracked ?

by lenkite

6/24/2026 at 3:56:51 AM

No, he is excluded. So is Alexandr.

by metamate100000

6/23/2026 at 4:38:49 AM

The tried and trusted “Move fast and break things”…

by fsuts

6/23/2026 at 9:48:33 AM

Meta sounds incredibly dystopian. Like a Black Mirror episode in real life!

by djmips

6/23/2026 at 2:52:09 AM

ayy lmao play stupid games win stupid prizes

by jcgrillo

6/22/2026 at 11:21:09 PM

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by black_13