Meta Is Now Tracking Its Employees. Funny How That Works.

Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series Tracking people without meaningful consent is wrong. It was wrong when Meta did it to users. It's wrong now. The only difference is who's upset about it. Meta recently rolled out a tool called the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), part of a broader internal program branded the Agent Transformation Accelerator. It logs mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and takes periodic screenshots from employees' work computers across hundreds of applications. The stated goal is to train AI agents to perform the kind of everyday computer tasks — dropdown menus, keyboard shortcuts, navigating interfaces — that humans currently do. There is no opt-out. And here's the kicker buried in that last sentence: this behavioral data feeds directly into Meta Superintelligence Labs — the same unit that just shipped Muse Spark, Meta's new flagship AI, which is completely proprietary. No open weights. No downloading it. No fine-tuning it. Not for you, not for…