In the article, Mawson quotes Liron Segev, tech blogger and CEO of Swift Consulting.
“There is no privacy, it was gone a long time ago, from the second you stopped buying magazines in store with cash,” Segev said.
Mawson is no impartial observer of the trend. Segev’s quote appears in a section with the subtitle, “Accept it,” referring to the death of privacy.
The question raised by Mawson is hardly a small one. Is privacy really dead? Can it be resurrected? Jacob Morgan, a Forbes contributor, tackled just that with Raj Samani, the EMEA CTO of McAfee, in a podcast released on Thursday.
Research from Pew shows that people aren’t just “accepting it” as some might argue they should.
“86% of internet users have tried to use the internet in ways to minimize the visibility of their digital footprints,” according to Pew. “55% of internet users have taken steps to hide from specific people or organizations.”