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Flock Safety's Langley to discuss AI surveillance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026; article catalogs Flock's funding, high valuation, and regulatory/privacy backlash around its surveillance tech.
Craneware suffered a significant data breach exposing customer, employee, and partner data, with regulatory disclosure to the London Stock Exchange; the incident sits in a history of large healthcare data breaches tied to billing/health IT software providers.
Meta will alert parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI, with manual review and emergency-services contact if risk is detected, rolling out from four countries to a global launch by year-end.
Mozilla-reported findings show Stardust shared users' health data with an analytics firm, contradicting its privacy claims; among six period-tracking apps, Stardust was the sole data-sharer, while Euki appeared to be privacy-clean.
Google’s AI Mode now supports linking and interacting with select apps (e.g., Instacart, Canva, YouTube) to complete tasks, with US rollout and more apps coming, signaling a shift from Q&A to cross-app task execution and stronger competitive positioning versus ChatGPT/Claude.
TechCrunch roundup combines AI hardware privacy debates (Lorde on AI glasses), regulatory/legal developments (AI training lawsuits and token-spend caps), and major funding milestones (PixVerse, OpenAI researcher Miles Wang’s drug-discovery venture) with several hard numeric data points.
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