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source_timestamps: ["§ 3. Protect customer data and make that protection visible."]
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speakers: ["Ali Furman", "Ege Gürdeniz", "Rima Safari", "Remzi Ural"]
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2026/02/how-brands-can-adapt-when-ai-agents-do-the-shopping"
source_title: "How Brands Can Adapt When AI Agents Do the Shopping"
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sourceTitle: "How Brands Can Adapt When AI Agents Do the Shopping"
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# The Sensitivity of Conversational Context

> "Agentic shopping captures more than transactions. It captures intent, emotion, and context. That context is what makes agentic shopping powerful, and what makes it uniquely sensitive."

— The authors ([[entity-ali-furman]], [[entity-ege-g-rdeniz]], [[entity-rima-safari]], [[entity-remzi-ural]])

**Context.** Captures the double edge behind [[claim-conversational-data-liability]]: the same conversational context that powers personalization becomes a liability if stored opaquely — motivating data minimization and the [[concept-incognito-shopping-mode]].