By: IAPP
Date: March 23, 2021
For decades, people have proclaimed a now-common refrain that “privacy is dead.” So get on with it, they say.
You probably know some of the most famous of the post-privacy pundits. No doubt, the oft-quoted Scott McNealy, then CEO at Sun Microsystems, eternally quipped, “You have zero privacy anyway. … Get over it.” In 2010, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that social norms were changing and people would go along with Facebook’s nudging toward more data sharing. You can even go back to 1970 and see that Newsweek featured a “privacy is dead” cover story.
More than 50 years later, we know that privacy did not die in 1970 or in 2010. And it doesn’t have to die in 2021, either, that’s according to Carissa Véliz in her new, compelling book, “Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data.”