Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

Meta 在内部数据泄露后暂停员工追踪项目

Meta is pausing a divisive employee tracking program after an internal security issue exposed potentially sensitive data collected through the initiative to other workers.

在发生一起内部安全问题，导致该项目收集的潜在敏感数据被其他员工获取后，Meta 正在暂停一项备受争议的员工追踪计划。

“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we’re pausing it while we investigate,” says company spokesperson Tracy Clayton.

公司发言人 Tracy Clayton 表示：“我们在设计该项目时充分考虑了隐私保护措施。虽然目前没有迹象表明 Meta 员工不当访问了任何数据，但我们决定在调查期间暂停该项目。”

Meta rolled out the Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI) tool in April to US employees. The tool “collects computer inputs such as mouse movements, click locations and keystrokes, as well as screen content,” according to workers who have been petitioning against it over privacy, security, and personal liberty concerns. When MCI launched, employees couldn’t opt out, but that changed to a limited degree after workers protested.

Meta 于今年 4 月向美国员工推出了“模型兼容性计划”（Model Compatibility Initiative，简称 MCI）工具。据一直因隐私、安全和个人自由问题而请愿抵制该工具的员工称，该工具会“收集鼠标移动、点击位置、按键记录以及屏幕内容等计算机输入信息”。MCI 刚推出时，员工无法选择退出，但在员工抗议后，这一情况得到了有限的改善。

Meta executives have repeatedly defended the data-gathering project, saying it was necessary to train AI systems to operate computer software the way humans do and that employees were the best examples for the artificial intelligence to learn from.

Meta 高管多次为该数据收集项目辩护，称其对于训练人工智能系统像人类一样操作计算机软件是必要的，并表示员工是人工智能学习的最佳范例。

On Monday, a Meta engineer issued an internal security notice stating that databases filled with information gathered by MCI had been exposed to anyone inside the company.

周一，一名 Meta 工程师发布了一份内部安全通知，称存储 MCI 所收集信息的数据库已对公司内部的所有人开放。

A former employee actively involved in pushing back against MCI describes the lapse as “a mess”—and one that employees had expected would occur. “When workers raised concerns, leadership doubled down and failed to acknowledge the risks workers raised about the safety and privacy of worker and customer data,” the person says. “Leadership has clearly created an authoritarian environment where workers are no longer respected or heard.”

一位积极参与抵制 MCI 的前员工将此次疏漏描述为“一团糟”，并称这是员工们预料之中会发生的事情。该人士表示：“当员工提出担忧时，领导层反而变本加厉，未能正视员工就员工及客户数据安全和隐私所提出的风险。领导层显然创造了一种威权环境，员工不再受到尊重，也无人倾听他们的声音。”

But after critical comments poured into internal forums on Monday expressing frustration about the security issue, Meta shocked some of its staff by pausing MCI altogether. It informed WIRED about the development before announcing it to employees, according to two people familiar with the matter.

但在周一大量批评意见涌入内部论坛，表达对该安全问题的沮丧情绪后，Meta 宣布全面暂停 MCI，这令一些员工感到震惊。据两位知情人士透露，Meta 在向员工宣布这一决定之前，先告知了《连线》（WIRED）杂志。