Meta Employees Protest Mouse-Tracking Surveillance

大规模裁员前几天，Meta员工抗议新推出的鼠标追踪软件 - The Next Web

Meta employees have organized protests at US offices against the company’s use of mouse-tracking technology, saying it invades privacy and could be used for surveillance. The workers, including those in product and research roles, say the tool collects granular interaction data without adequate transparency or consent; some have staged walkouts and shared internal messages to pressure leadership. Meta argues the technology helps improve product quality and user experience, but employees and privacy advocates warn it sets a concerning precedent for monitoring workplace behavior and user interactions. The conflict highlights tensions over internal data practices, employee activism, and governance of monitoring tools in large tech firms.

Meta employees in the US distributed leaflets across multiple offices to protest the company’s deployment of mouse- and keyboard-tracking software on staff computers, and encouraged signing an online petition citing US labor protections. The protest coincides with Meta’s plan to cut about 10% of its workforce and growing internal labor organizing tied to dissatisfaction with AI-driven workforce changes. Some UK employees are working with the Union of Technical, Administrative and Workers (UTAW) to launch a unionization push, criticizing management for heavy monitoring, forced data collection to train AI, and layoffs. Meta says the interaction data is needed to build agents that assist users in everyday tasks.