Meta in a recent development has decided to hit a pause on the employee activity monitoring program driven by the internal mouse-tracking tool over data security concerns.

The announcement comes as the parent company of Facebook and Instagram came across disturbing revelations during the security review. As reported by Reuters, the sensitive employee data gathered by mouse-tracking was accessible to all Meta staffers, thereby sparking the growing fears of privacy risks.

Meta launched this tracking tool named Model Capability Initiative (MCI) in April to monitor the........

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