An Engineer's Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
cdrnsf
34 points
4 comments
May 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
Ancalagon
https://archive.md/8xSci
sophiabits
> Selfishly, I don't want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy, [...] But zooming out, I don't want to live in a world where humans—employees or otherwise—are exploited for their training data. I wonder whether this Meta employee felt the same way about privacy a month ago, before they were personally impacted by this new initiative.
recursivecaveat
Selfishly, I don't want to live my every waking moment in a panopticon, but I understand it's really important to the shareholders. Rough world we've reached where you have to start with a mea culpa about your horrible selfish desire.
SilverElfin
There’s irony here but it’s also an important fight