People are treating AI chatbots as advisors, confidantes, and even accomplices, writes Anthony Cuthbertson . But with no legal protections, and predatory actors looking to monetise and exploit this new trove of deeply intimate data, a new tech reckoning has arrived I n the early hours of 28 August, a quiet car park on a college campus in Missouri became the scene of a violent vandalism rampage. In the space of 45 minutes, 17 cars were left with shattered windows, broken mirrors, ripped-off