Commercial Grief Apps Normalize Surveillance

Bereavement‑focused AI apps will be packaged as therapeutic services while harvesting persistent, intimate interaction data and monetizing fidelity features (visuals, avatars, premium realism). That business model normalizes ongoing surveillance of private mourning, reshapes grieving practices, and creates new vectors for exploitation, data reuse, and mental‑health harm. — This reframes grief‑tech as a privacy and consumer‑protection issue requiring rules on consent, data ownership, therapeutic claims, and advertising to vulnerable people.