REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS: ABOLISH PRIVACY

Abstract

This paper conducts a survey of the term “privacy” in mainstream media usage. This paper finds that "internet privacy" is mistakenly promoted as a civil right. Although real civil rights privacy infractions are accelerating at an unprecedented rate due to the rise of algorithmic governance in the carceral system, healthcare and welfare, these issues are not the focus of mainstream “privacy” concerns, which instead focus on consumer entitlements. This paper conducted a discourse analysis of fourteen left and right-wing newspapers in 3 countries over 2019 to trace the rise of privacy as a civil right. A set of keywords was used in order to build the universe of articles whose main focus concerned privacy.