Petition Against Meta's Model Capability Initiative
A petition has been initiated against Meta's Model Capability Initiative, which involves collecting employee computer-use data for AI training. Employees are concerned about privacy and consent, citing past data breaches and regulatory risks. The petition calls for a commitment to not collect such data, emphasizing the importance of respecting employee privacy.
- ▪The Model Capability Initiative collects data such as keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen content from employees.
- ▪Employees have raised concerns about the lack of completed privacy reviews and vague privacy mitigations.
- ▪The petition highlights the risks of collecting sensitive data, including potential breaches and violations of privacy laws.
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| Original publisher | Mcipetition |
| Canonical URL | https://mcipetition.com/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 21:19:18 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T21:34:56.992Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T21:34:56.992Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ubidgxNwFTiB |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Dear Mark and Meta Leadership, We demand that you not collect employee “computer-use” data for the purposes of training AI Models. Read the letter by clicking here Recently, leadership announced in a limited audience group (MSL Infra FYI) that a program called "MCI" (Model Capability Initiative) would be rolling out. For context this program collects computer inputs such as mouse movements, click locations and keystrokes, as well as screen content. When employees asked what privacy reviews were conducted, including any "people data reviews" (which are required for processing employee data), no completed privacy reviews were provided.
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