Internal memo: Meta is scaling back elements of its employee tracking tool, launched in April to help train its AI models, after staff raised concerns (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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Meta walking back parts of its employee tracking tool under internal pressure shows that data hunger now runs headfirst into workforce trust. If you’re training models on employee behavior, assume consent, transparency, and opt-outs are not HR nice-to-haves—they’re existential to your data pipeline.
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