Measured public attention
What does AI do with my data?
7 measured threads · about 7,000 points · measured 11 October 2026
What happened
Silent installs and always-on devices trigger the sharpest reactions.
The supplied measurement groups 7 threads with about 7,000 points and 3,220 comments. These totals measure attention, not whether the linked claims are true.
The timeline brings together 9 source-linked contributions assigned to this question. It preserves their dates, discussion records and original sources.
Complete assigned timeline
A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
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Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
Identity verification on Claude
Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
OpenAI – How to delete your account
OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
Continue the evidence trail
Method
Attention is measured, not guessed: every Hacker News story from 1 Jan 2026 with more than 300 points and an AI subject (631 stories), read through the public search interface on 11 Oct 2026, grouped by the question behind the story. Survey figures come from published polls with four-digit samples and are linked.