In a feature for Computerworld, Jay Cline, CIPP/US, weighs in on the question of whether privacy is in its death throes. Citing headline-makers who’ve made that claim, Cline questions, “Are they right? Is privacy passé?” Recapping the year that was 2013—from “all of the new digital innovations hitting the streets” to the seemingly limitless possibilities of Big Data to “the vast capabilities of the National Security Agency, which seemed to leave nothing digital out (of) its hearing range” and looking to 2014, Cline creates a “privacy death index” and suggests the road to privacy’s demise “is littered with legal and constitutional obstacles. Traveling this path would require a governmental encroachment into the personal space not seen even in revolutionary colonial times.” Editor's Note: Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, recently explored this topic on the Privacy Perspectives blog. Hint: Privacy wasn't in its dying days in 1970 either.
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