In a report for the National Post, Matt Hartley looks back on 2010 and the impact social networking has had on privacy. "Just a few years ago, I might have felt uncomfortable revealing quite so much of myself to the world," he writes, "But in the age of Facebook and Twitter, of Foursquare and Xbox Live, all of us--not just reporters--have a public profile, an online persona we place before the world." The year that was 2010, he suggests, may well be remembered "as the year the general public's understanding of privacy began to change." However, he notes, it has also been the year when social networks began to "get serious" about privacy.
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