Why do people keep saying privacy is dead, and what does it mean when they do?

What is it about?

The article takes an observation - that people keep declaring the death or end of privacy - and runs with it. We look at over 100 news articles that declare privacy to be dead and ask how they do it, what is held responsible for the death of privacy, and whether the writers pay any attention to previous declarations of the end or death of privacy.

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Why is it important?

This is the first time that declarations of the end of privacy have been studied. What we argue is that by looking at how the end of privacy is always proclaimed we are able to say something about the nature of privacy itself as a modern right, namely that it is always in crisis because it was a right that was born out of the conditions for its violation.