Shorts
What happened
Meta — the company behind Facebook and Instagram — was secretly logging every single keystroke typed by its own employees, without making it clearly known. The goal was to collect that data to help train its artificial intelligence. After it came to light, the company scaled the program back.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
If a company is willing to spy on its own workers to feed its AI, it raises an uncomfortable question about what data the rest of us are generating without knowing it. This is a window into how desperate tech companies are to gather training material — and how far they're willing to go to get it.
Takeaway
They watched every key their own employees pressed. Now ask yourself: who's watching you?
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