WhatsApp's "Channels" feature launched in 2023 as a broadcast tool for one-to-many messaging. Meta positioned it as a privacy-preserving alternative…
When Allison Chen, a product manager at a mid-sized software company, enabled Notion AI on…
Perplexity AI's rapid ascent—now valued at $3 billion—masks a fundamental surveillance architecture that psychological profiling…
Spotify's AI DJ feature recently expanded to analyze listener mood in real-time, automatically adjusting song selections based on detected emotional states. The company frames this as personalization—"understanding what you're feeling…
Google announced a new "Memory" feature for Gemini that stores user preferences, personal facts, and interaction patterns across Gmail, YouTube,…
The UK's decision to weaken GDPR compliance post-Brexit represents something more dangerous than regulatory rollback—it's institutional amnesia about what behavioral…
The Federal Trade Commission's 2019 settlement with Facebook—a record $5 billion fine—was presented as historic accountability. In reality, it was…
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