Originally published on The AI Prism
When was the last time you actually read the terms of service before hitting “Agree”?
Exactly.
For the last three years, we’ve been happily feeding our most intimate data — our emails, our bank statements, our private medical questions, our half-baked business ideas — into massive cloud servers owned by three or four tech conglomerates. We did it because the AI was smart, and the convenience was too good to pass up.
But in 2026, a funny thing happened. People started getting creeped out again.
