What distinguishes this breach from a typical corporate data incident is the closed loop it completes. The internal leak exposing sensitive employee data did not come from an external actor — it came from the program's own infrastructure distributing data it was never supposed to share broadly. Employees already skeptical of having their keystrokes harvested to build Meta's AI capabilities found themselves not just monitored but exposed, their private conversations surfaced to colleagues across the company . The pause that followed is a consequence of internal architecture failure, not external pressure — and that distinction matters for how the program will be evaluated if it resumes.
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