Meta is pausing its employee computer tracking program, the Model Capability Initiative, after sensitive employee information was leaked internally, according to reports from Business Insider and Wired. A security notice sent out Monday said the exposed data included employee’s full AI prompts and transcriptions, performance data, and even private conversations, and the leak allowed the data to be accessible to any employee inside the company. The program, intended to gather data so Meta’s AI models could learn “how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers,” collected everything from employee keystrokes to recording their computer screens. When announced in April, it sparked backlash, with internal posts denouncing it as an invasion of privacy and a petition to end it. Meta said it is investigating the incident and confirmed it paused the program. Chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth, who had assured the data would be “tightly controlled,” admitted the initiative’s implementation had fallen short of the standards set in its privacy review. Meta vice president Stephane Kasriel stated, “We will only re-enable MCI when we are confident in the effectiveness of our data protection controls.”