The C Word looks at AI data harvesting in ambient spaces, fleet car vulnerabilities, cinema eye-tracking, neuromarketing and international regulatory frameworks.

True progress in 2026 isn't just attending a prestigious 19th Century 'Collegiate Row' school, or neural network 'hacking' and 'flying drones' in the classroom (the vocational 'cogs' for the tech industry); it’s about investments in public and private educational spaces where technology isn't utilised as predictive profiling of minors under 16, where education investment models continue to protect the biology of the learner, rather than exploiting it.