The Glorious Summer of 2011: Leaking, Tweeting, Blogging, Hacking and Rioting.

The article presents the author's views on the incidents which took place in the summer of 2011 in Great Britain and the role played by digital media in highlighting the events. According to the author, events including riots, phone hacking and the Wikileaks revelations, indicated that privacy of individuals is at risk. The author believes that public outrage over mobile phone hacking gave privacy a new respectability.