The AI privacy conversation has operated for years on a register of speculation — warning about systems that could misidentify, data that could be re-purposed, inferences that could harm. What broke that frame in mid-March 2026 was the simultaneous arrival of two specific, documented events: a facial recognition system that wrongfully imprisoned a woman for six months , and a game company confirming that 30 billion images of real-world space had been funneled into AI training without players understanding that was the transaction . The policy conversation about AI privacy…