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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Part 2. Roughly 76% of big North American companies already record what you do on your work laptop. Meta just became the first major US employer to put the purpose in writing: the recordings will train the AI meant to replace you.

The surveillance itself has been running across most of corporate America for years. Meta’s addition was naming AI training as the explicit purpose.

The AI being trained is already close to human-level on basic computer work. Two years ago, the best agent finished 12 out of 100 standard desktop tasks on a benchmark called OSWorld, where the average person finishes 72. Stanford’s 2026 AI Index clocked the jump to 66.3% in a single year, and the newest Claude models crossed 78% on the stricter version of the same test earlier this month.

Introspective Market Research valued the worldwide employee monitoring software market at $4.7 billion in 2024 and projects $24 billion by 2032, about a 5x jump in 8 years. That forecast was made before anyone started labeling the recordings “AI training data.”

Some of the vendors your employer may already pay for include Teramind, Hubstaff, ActivTrak, and Microsoft’s Viva Insights, a workforce analytics tool bundled into corporate Office 365 accounts. All of them record what you click, type, and see on screen. About 34% of companies also run keystroke logging. JPMorgan tracks Zoom calls and badge swipes to enforce its return-to-office rule. Amazon’s warehouse productivity system was strict enough that France’s privacy regulator, CNIL, fined the company 32 million euros, about $35 million, in January 2024 for “excessively intrusive” tracking. Amazon kept running the same system outside France, where paying the fine was cheaper than stopping.

The federal law covering all of this in the US is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, signed in 1986. It lets an employer monitor anything on a company device for a “legitimate business purpose,” a bar so low it almost never blocks anything. Connecticut, Delaware, New York, California, and Illinois require written notice. Forty-five states do not. Europe’s rules are tighter, but those protect European workers.

Your company already buys the surveillance software, usually without telling staff what triggers a flag. The vendor adds “AI training export” as a feature. The training data goes into the agent that starts drafting the email, pulling the expense report, summarizing the meeting, and later taking the client call. You were the input, the agent is the output, and the invoice for the upgrade lands on the CFO’s desk.

If you work on a company laptop, assume every keystroke is already being logged, and assume the logs are training data. The memo from your own employer confirming it is a question of when.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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Sources:

Reuters scoop on Meta employee tracking memo (Apr 21) https://t.co/2UTQZCoIec

Meta May 20 layoffs of 8,000 (TheNextWeb) https://t.co/pj4ohrc9Up

Meta Q4 + Full Year 2025 official press release ($115.8B operating cash, $43.59B FCF, $72.22B capex, 78,865 headcount) https://t.co/kmWvRxrg0L

Scale AI deal $14.3B for 49% + Alexandr Wang to Meta (CNBC) https://t.co/8iqbglLdI7

Oracle ~30,000 layoffs / $156B AI capex (TheNextWeb) https://t.co/ENyOQ9cpv5

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Yesterday Meta told every US employee their computer will now record mouse clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots while they work. All of it goes into training an AI to do their job. In 30 days, 8,000 of these same employees are being laid off.

Reuters got the memo. The wording is the company's own: the recordings will be used to build "AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously." Reuters also confirmed the May 20 date and the number, 8,000 people, exactly 10% of Meta's global workforce.

Meta is spending $115 to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year, almost double the $72 billion it spent last year. The entire business only generated $115.8 billion in cash for all of 2025. Meta is now planning to spend more on AI in 2026 than the whole company brings in.

Part of the bill went to a company called Scale AI. Meta paid $14.3 billion for 49% of it last June, mostly to bring in CEO Alexandr Wang. Scale's whole job is to tag and clean the human-written data that AI models learn from. Meta wanted Wang because their old data supply ran dry.

The public internet is almost out of fresh material to feed these models. A group called Epoch AI ran the math and projects the world will burn through its supply of high-quality human-written text on the web somewhere between 2026 and 2032. The industry calls this the "data wall." Google and OpenAI are stuck on the same side of it.

So Meta turned inward, to the most expensive training material money can buy: their own employees doing their own jobs. Mouse movements teach the AI how to move around a screen, click by click. Keystroke logs hand it the exact shortcuts and rhythm an experienced worker uses, the muscle memory of the job. Screenshots show what a finished task should look like. The people being recorded in April are the raw material for the AI that replaces them in May.

This is not just a Meta thing. Amazon laid off 16,000 corporate workers in January. Oracle let go of up to 30,000 of its people, about 18% of the company, on March 31. The cash they saved goes toward $156 billion in AI data centers. The whole pattern across big tech is identical. Record profits and record AI spending, paired with the biggest workforce cuts since the pandemic.

The thing they are building is a software worker that opens the dashboard, reads the numbers, drafts the email, books the meeting, and never needs a coffee break. The training data for that worker is a senior Meta employee doing all of that, on Meta's payroll, one month before their last day.

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Die AfD posiert als Retterin vor der freiwilligen #Chatkontrolle 1.0 — während ihre Fraktion (ESN) bei den laufenden Verhandlungen zu #Chatkontrolle 2.0 WIEDER als einzige komplett FEHLT! 🥱🛋️💤
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Montag EU-Ausschussabstimmung zur Zukunft der #Chatkontrolle – und die AfD spielt wieder „heute so, morgen so“ 🤦‍♂️
Sie brüllt erst laut „NEIN!“, will jetzt aber mit inkompetenten Argumenten ZUSTIMMEN.
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🇪🇺Why are EU foreign ministers using Signal on private phones for highly sensitive chat on Gaza & more? This is amateur-league IT, inviting espionage & undermining democratic control. Time for professional standards! https://t.co/w7xYVBae6d #EUSignalGate

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🇩🇪Wieso nutzen EU-Außenminister offenbar Signal auf Privathandys für hochsensible Kriegs-Chats über Gaza u.ä.? Die IT-Amateurliga lädt Spionage ein & untergräbt demokratische Kontrolle. Zeit für Profi-Standards! Mein Kommentar: https://t.co/giykwAjPSf #EUSignalGate

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[DroPo @Dro_Poli]

Gemäß dem Motto: "Ich habe auch nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank, Herr Merz!" Beteiligung an der Geschenkaktion #nichtalleTassenimSchrank Etwas Insperation dazu gibt's hier:
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@Billow4 @vwt1812 ist Lukas Küffner, wenn die #Piraten heute 3 Prozent kämen wäre er mit 22 Jahren Europaabgeordneter #Europawahl

[piratenbine @Billow4]

Wählen zu können, ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit! Die Frauen Europas mussten ihr Wahlrecht hart erkämpfen. Auch hat Pirat @LukasKüffner als Beschwerdeführer die Absenkung des Wahlalters auf 16 eingeklagt.
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[piratenbine @Billow4]

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[Piratenpartei @Piratenpartei]

@AnjaHirschel unsere Spitzenkandidatin zur #EUWahl2024 hat eine Beschwerde gegen die biometrische Gesichtserkennung in Berlin eingereicht.
"Diese Massenüberwachung ist ein Angriff auf bürgerliche Freiheiten und Verletzung der Datenschutzrechte"
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[Kulturvilla @NellieNashorn]

Kultur in Lörrach—Gegenwart u. Zukunft. Vorträge u. Podiumsdiskussion zur Kommunal-#Wahl mit F. Böhler (Grüne), J. Exner (CDU), Ph. Schliesser (SPD), @MLindemer (Freie Wähler), N.N. (FDP), S. Schumacher (Piraten); Moderation: @HeuteBluhm und Franz Schmider
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[piratenbine @Billow4]

@a_watch In den Kommunen werden Buslinien in ihrer Anfangsphase mit durchschn. 2-5 Fahrgästen pro Fahrt oft bemängelt & mit dem Argument "zu hohe Personalkosten", gerne schnell wieder eingestampft. Und hier pumpt man munter Millionen in ein Projekt, was genau 1 Person befördert. Argh!🙈😡

[PIRATEN Saarland @PIRATEN_Saar]

Die AfD verkauft uns an China & den Kreml. Ihr geht es nicht um die Menschen, sondern nur um Macht & Geld. Die AfD ist eine Gefahr für Deutschland! Sie nutzt die Ängste & Sorgen der Menschen für ihre rechte Hetze, wie es auch Moskau & Peking tun. Unser #Krah Song #PIRATEN

[Piratenpartei Ba-Wü @PiratenBW]

Heute sind wir zum #1Mai mit @AnjaHirschel bei den @Piraten_GP und beginnen die heiße Wahlkampfphase. #Europawahl2024 #Kommunalwahl2024

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