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Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI team, created in March with a join-or-quit mandate, is in revolt: 1,600+ employees signed a petition against keystroke surveillance, bathroom-stall flyers appeared across US campuses, and UK workers began organizing with UTAW.
Leaked audio from a Meta all-hands reveals Zuckerberg used employee keystrokes and clipboard data to train AI models, days before laying off 8,000 staff.
Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police facial recognition software falsely matched her to a bank fraud suspect 1,200 miles away. She lost her home, car, and dog.
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, resigns over the company's Pentagon AI contract, warning that mass surveillance and autonomous weapons 'deserved more deliberation than they got.'
A Swedish investigation reveals Meta routes sensitive Ray-Ban smart glasses footage to data annotators in Kenya who see users undressing, having sex, and flashing bank cards - with broken anonymization and no real opt-out.
Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic show that LLM agents can strip pseudonymity from forum posts at scale for as little as $1.41 per target - matching what human investigators could do in hours.
OpenAI's CEO admits the Pentagon deal was rushed and amends it with new surveillance protections - but legal experts say the fixes don't close the real loopholes.
Burger King's new AI assistant Patty monitors drive-thru workers for phrases like please and thank you, generating friendliness scores for managers. It's already in 500 stores and heading for every US location by year-end.
OpenAI's automated systems flagged violent gun scenarios in a ChatGPT user's conversations in June 2025. Employees urged leadership to alert Canadian police. Leadership refused. Eight months later, the user killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, BC.
