# The Worker, Watched: How Meta turned its own employees into AI training data

- slug: the-worker-watched-how-meta-turned-its-own-employees-into-ai-training-data
- date: 2026-04-21
- category: Agentics

Italy banned it. Germany allows it only for serious crime. The US has no law against it. Meta is running its keystroke-logging program — which its own hired expert called industrial espionage — in exactly that gap.

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