CNN.com’s Top 5 daily news clips includes one with the heading, “Privacy Is Dead. Get Over It”. I say, emphatically, “How About We Don’t Get Over It?”. One private investigator interviewed spoke about how the internet and social networks have made privacy impossible, concluding with his line, “Privacy Is Dead”. Whether it was the guest himself or CNN.com who added the tag line, there it blazed as the on-screen headline: “Get Over It”. I reiterate: How about we don’t? The absence of privacy has become normalized and sold as “fact”. We are directed to accept this and think no more about it. The train has left the station. Period. How about we don’t? How about we get out of the reinforced habit of helplessness and think for ourselves!
We could get off the couch and figure out ways to bring back privacy. It’s not too late. How about dismantling systems that remove this basic right from our lives. Creating and enforcing protective devices to ensure a real comeback for privacy, anyone? BTW, the comeback of privacy could be a big money-maker. I don’t know how to accomplish this, but we can all begin by demanding the return of privacy in our personal lives. What do you think? It’s not too late.