GDPR Collision: Meta’s MCI Employee AI-Training Tool Under EU Scrutiny

Key Takeaways

• Meta’s internal Model Capability Initiative (MCI) continuously logs mouse movements, keystrokes, and active desktop screenshots of U.S. staff.
• Leaked Q&A documents reveal MCI inadvertently records communications from European personnel, directly threatening compliance with GDPR.
• Privacy rights groups (including NOYB) have filed early challenges, stating data collected for employment cannot legally be ingested into frontier AI models.
• The controversy marks a major shift in worker resistance against treating knowledge employees as corporate “data farms” for their own automated replacements.