The tragedy of the commons is an economic theory that describes a situation where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting a shared resource. Historically, this concept was applied to grazing lands where each herder sought to maximize their own flock, eventually leading to overgrazing and the destruction of the pasture. To prevent this, theorists suggest either private property rights or government regulation. Recently, some social scientists have applied this model to digital privacy. If every company maximizes its own data collection to gain a competitive edge, the common resource—consumer trust in the digital ecosystem—may be depleted. Once trust is destroyed, the entire digital economy suffers as consumers become reluctant to participate in online transactions. Unlike physical pastures, however, the digital commons is non-excludable but potentially infinite in terms of data volume, though the quality of the interactions remains finite. The challenge in the digital age is that the depletion of trust is a gradual, invisible process, making it harder to recognize the tipping point before the damage to the collective infrastructure is irreversible.