Is it time to rein in our devil-may-care attitude to online privacy?

I was in my early 20s when someone took me into the corner of a local newsroom and pointed at the internet.  There it was, sat flashing in the corner – a gleaming cyber coalface.
I was a wannabe journalist who didn’t know a jpeg from a clothes peg. But because I was young, they asked me to “have a fiddle around on that and see what it does”. Innocent times.
User-generated content was a letter to the editor and blogging was essentially the preserve of the self-obsesse