Editor-At-Large: Privacy is down the YouTube and real friends are history

Teenagers weaned on the instant gratification of the internet do not understand the dangers that lurk in its virtual world Funny how we worry about ID cards, CCTV cameras and erosion of our privacy, and yet we spend hours logging on to the internet without a care. I loathe the idea of the Government storing my personal details on some bound-to-fail computer system and I baulk at the amount of personal information handed over to American immigration every time a British citizen visits the US. Now, a court ruling in the US means that any shred of privacy you thought you had on the internet will be violated too. Google, which owns YouTube, has just been ordered to hand over the details of 100 million people who logged on to the video site, many of whom are British citizens. Google is currently locked in battle with the... [read full story]