Some employees who work remotely or handle sensitive material will reportedly be allowed to opt out of the AI training program altogether.

Meta Platforms is changing a new policy. In April, the tech company announced that it would monitor its employees’ mouse movements and keyboard strokes. However, now, it plans to allow workers to “pause” the tracking for up to 30 minutes if a situation is “personal.

As per the revised plan, employees can pause data collection for 30 minutes. They can also request exemptions.

Meta is pulling back parts of its controversial plan to record employee mouse movements and keystrokes for AI training. The retreat was disclosed on Tuesday in an internal memo by Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta’s Superintelligence Labs.

Companies like JPMorgan, Meta, Amazon, and KPMG are tracking how employees use AI, and using the data to inform decisions about performance.

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According to an internal memo, new controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for "up to 30 minutes at a time".

Meta is dialing back elements of its plan to collect employee mouse movements, keystrokes and other actions for use as AI training data, it said in an internal memo on Tuesday, following weeks of angry pushback from staffers.