# No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/no-privacy-is-not-dead-beware-the-all-or-nothing-mindset/33381
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**Created:** 2025-11-28T01:37:23Z
**Posts:** 1

## Post 1 by @privacyguides — 2025-11-28T01:37:23Z

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In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse that I find very damaging to privacy as a whole. The first one is the idea that _privacy is dead_, implying it's not worth putting any effort to protect personal data anymore. This is the abdication mindset. This attitude is the one that scares me the most because without giving it a fight then of course the battle is lost in advance. **Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, privacy is dead if you let it die.**

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/](https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/)