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This week’s deep dive tracks the “quiet” changes shaping 2026—terms of service, mandates, and backend decisions that are redrawing the line between convenience and surveillance. We unpack the promise (and risk) of AI health tools that plug into medical records, the surge in healthcare breaches, and why “deleting” data doesn’t mean what people think it means in machine learning.
Then we zoom out to the inshitification cycle hitting modern AI: ads, monetization pressure, and the growing problem of AI “pollution” as bot swarms manufacture fake consensus that models can accidentally ingest. We also break down why AI agents (not just chatbots) are a security turning point—because once an agent can act with admin permissions, attackers can aim for the controls, not the conversation.
Finally, we tackle the safety-versus-surveillance front: impairment-monitoring mandates in cars, driving data sold to brokers, cloud-stored encryption keys that can be handed over under warrant, and the massive real-world cost of ransomware—where entire towns can’t function and families get trapped in broken systems.
If you run a small business, this is your reminder: assume data flows, tighten your controls, and build incident readiness before the next “quiet” update becomes a crisis.