AI training surveillance sparks union drive

When companies deploy fine‑grained monitoring (mouse tracking, keystroke capture) explicitly to collect training data for AI, employees treat it as both privacy invasion and job threat, triggering petitions and union organizing. Meta’s reported installation of mouse‑tracking in U.S. offices and a simultaneous UK union drive show how AI data collection can catalyze workplace mobilization. — This links AI development practices to labor organizing and regulatory questions about workplace surveillance and consent.