If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear? Right?

The irony of this is so strange..

I've been building tools around screen capture for a bit and every time one of these threads comes up the conversation ends up mushing two things together that aren't actually the same.

Hooking keystrokes, mouse, screenshots on a local machine is what every decent journaling or timesheet app already does, and nobody cares because the file stays on the user's machine. Meta isn't getting dragged because they figured out how to instrument work laptops. They're getting dragged because they're the ones holding the logs, and "just for training" is a promise that hasn't aged well anywhere it's been deployed the last ten years.

Annoying side effect — the genuinely useful version of this, local activity logs you own for your own records, gets lumped in with bossware every time this comes up. Most freelancers and consultants I know would pay for the former. Most of them would quit over the latter.

With this data, meta can make metahumans which pass recaptcha for real.

Time to leave tech forever and farm onions, I think.

Microsoft was also doing the same in their VIVA program.

fines are negligible for these companies, so i also expect these policies to be applied to eu employees without telling them

Meta can even afford to destroy themselves and their own employees.

More proof that they do not care about you at all. This is Meta's way of moving fast and destroying everything at all costs.

Honestly, I doubt this data is as useful as they think.

Half my workday is me browsing random tabs while an AI agent does the actual work. They're going to train a model on alt-tabbing and scrolling HN/Twitter/Reddit.

Gotta feed the beast some how.