Inbox‑scale AI surveillance as service

Big platforms are converting email into a managed, AI‑driven service layer that reads full inboxes to generate actions, summaries and topic overviews. That design normalizes always‑on semantic indexing of private messages, centralizes attention‑shaping and creates a single‑vendor choke point for highly personal metadata. — If inbox scanning becomes a standard product, it will shift regulatory fights from abstract platform content to routine private‑data processing, forcing new rules on defaults, verification, law‑enforcement access, and monetization.