Modern toplumlarda bireyin temel hak ve özgürlüklerinden biri de özel hayatyn gizlili?i ve dokunulmazly?ydyr. Her birey, özel hayatyny gizli tutma ve kendisine ili?kin ki?isel bilgilerin korunmasyny isteme hakkyna sahiptir. Ancak modernle?me sürecinde ortaya çykan ve de?er kazanan bu hak, yine modernle?menin bir sonucu olarak çe?itli biçimlerde ihlal edilmeye ve anlamyny yitirmeye ba?lamy?tyr. Bu çaly?ma, modernle?me sürecinde mahremiyetin nasyl bir dönü?üme u?rady?yny, mahremiyetin modern devlet, kapitalist örgütler ve bizzat bireyin kendisi tarafyndan bili?im teknolojileri kanalyyla nasyl tehdit edildi?ini ortaya koymak amacyyla yapylmy?tyr. Bu amaçla modernle?me ve mahremiyet kavramlary, modernle?me sürecinde mahremiyet kavramynyn ya?ady?y dönü?üm ele alynmy?, son olarak modern hayatta mahremiyete yönelik tehditlerin neler oldu?u incelenmi?tir.

One of the individual fundamental freedoms and rights in the modern societies is that secrecy and the personality of private life. Each person has the rights of keeping the secrecy of private life and asking to save for personal information about his own life. However, this right, which appears and improves its value in the modernization process, has began to lose its meaning and is infringed in various ways as a result of modernization again. This study was taken up with the aim of betraying how the privacy suffer a change in modernization process, how privacy is threatened by the modern state, capitalist organizations and also especially by individual's own through information technology. With this purpose, modernization and privacy conceptions, also the changing of privacy concept were taken up and finally it was analyzed what are the threats to privacy in modern life.