Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
AMME IDARESI DERGISI, cilt.55, sa.1, ss.35-61, 2022 (SSCI)
While studies focusing on digitalization focus on the economic and social positive aspects it creates, few studies examine its negative aspects. This study, like these few studies, focuses on the negativities of digitalization and raises the issue of privacy in the context of the transforming position and role of the state. Studies on privacy generally focus on the psychological and social conditions of individuals and the protection of the body. In this study, attention is drawn to the negative effects of privacy on personal information/data level with digitalization. It is carried out based on the literature review in terms of explanatory type, theoretical in terms of purpose and research technique. The main thesis of the study is that in the digital age, privacy is lost against oneself; the environment, the state and capital. While this loss process is encouraged by the market, the state becomes a part of this relationship with its the new regulation and surveillance/control function transformed in the state. In the article, first of all, the concepts related to privacy are defined, the limits of privacy and its ideology are emphasized, and the developments affecting the loss of privacy are discussed. Although the subject has a wide spectrum ranging from political science to sociology, the main field of study of this study is public administration. The concept of privacy will be tried to be analyzed at the scale of the transforming public administration in terms of understanding, structure and function, and how and why technological developments erode privacy will be discussed.