Is it really possible to have online privacy in the internet age?

There’s a storm brewing in cyberspace. Internet users who, until now, have been perfectly happy to share their most intimate thoughts online, are questioning whether things have gone too far.

Many of these privacy concerns centre around Facebook and Google, which is hardly surprising given their dominance – billions of people around the world interact with these sites on a daily basis.

Google is under investigation in a number of countries after it admitted that its Street View mapping cars had inadvertently collected browsing information sent over wireless networks, although it says it is highly unlikely that any of the data would be useful.