Abstract
The defense of privacy has historically been based on the protection of the autonomy and dignity of individuals. However, the recent development of the surveillance economy has multiplied the types of monitoring technologies and observation targets available. This situation shows the limits of the political, legal and social mechanisms of the liberal societies to protect the privacy, and forces us to rethink these threats from a new perspective. To this end, the aim of this paper is to defend the necessity to develop a collective dimension of privacy, not only focused on individuals, as a mechanism to understand and interrelate the set of socio-technical changes that threaten the dignity, political autonomy and digital sovereignty of human groups.