This study examines the transformation of the privacy preservation instinct in the digital era, as it dissociates from collective defense mechanisms to evolve into a socio-psychological isolation model characterized as "Paranoid Individualism." Within the...
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This study examines the transformation of the privacy preservation instinct in the digital era, as it dissociates from collective defense mechanisms to evolve into a socio-psychological isolation model characterized as "Paranoid Individualism." Within the contemporary digital ecosystem, the defense of privacy is increasingly reduced to individualistic acts of augmenting digital fortifications rather than a systemic pursuit of institutional rights. Treating this trend as a "derivative of egoism," the research analyzes the deleterious impacts of the individual’s retreat into a private digital citadel on social trust capital. The theoretical framework incorporates Shoshana Zuboff’s thesis of Surveillance Capitalism, Byung-Chul Han’s critique of Psychopolitics, and the sociological reverberations of "Zero Trust" architecture—an institutional cybersecurity strategy—on interpersonal relations. Informed by data from the 2021 WhatsApp migration, KVKK (Personal Data Protection Authority) awaren
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