Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.
I wasn’t understanding what use keystrokes and mouse-clicks would have without also capturing what’s happening on screen. Turn out, they are also capturing that:
FWIW, a lot of websites do pretty much the same thing. It isn’t too hard and, for the most part, doesn’t require user permission.
It does if you want full screenshot / video recording, but it doesn’t if you just track mouse movements and what is typed and virtually recreate the DOM.