New controls will allow employees to pause the data collection for up to 30 minutes at a time and request exemptions from the initiative, according to the memo, authored by Stephane Kasriel, a vice president in Meta's AI model-building Superintelligence Labs unit.

The tool could also violate EU privacy law, Reuters reports.

Meta’s Model Capability Initiative is capturing far more European employee data than Meta has publicly acknowledged, putting the AI-agent training programme on a GDPR collision…