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Introduction Types of Social Networks What Information is Public? Information a User Shares Information Gathered Through Electronic Tracking Who Can Access Information?

Newly released documents confirm what critics have long suspected-that the National Security Agency, a component of the Defense Department, is engaged in unconstitutional surveillance of Americans' communications, including their telephone calls and emails.

The following are some of the most common scams that the FBI investigates and tips to help prevent you from being victimized. Visit our White-Collar Crime and Cyber webpages for more fraud schemes. To report cases of fraud, use our online tips form or contact your nearest FBI office or overseas office.

With so many computer applications out there and data available at the touch of a screen, you may not realize all the potential dangers of social media facing your children. Cyber expert Tyler Cohen Wood, a public speaker and the author of " Catching the Catfishers," explains, "Children now have an entire life history, down to the pregnancy announcement before they were born, on social media."

When people talk about hacking and social networks, they're not referring to the com­mon definition of hacking, which is using malicious code or backdoors in computer networks to damage systems or steal proprietary information. Hacking into social networks requires very little technical skill.

I believe that there should be an increase on security with social networks because of how easy it is to hack into someones personal information!

Americans are divided over whether or not the U.S. government has gone too far in using surveillance practices that infringe on citizens' privacy, an NBC News online survey found. While 38 percent of Americans say the government's surveillance program has gone too far in infringing on people's privacy, 35 percent say the government's program has been relatively balanced between privacy concerns and fighting terrorism.

Mass surveillance is the subjection of a population or significant component of a group to indiscriminate monitoring. It involves a systematic interference with people's right to privacy. Any system that generates and collects data on individuals without attempting to limit the dataset to well-defined targeted individuals is a form of mass surveillance.

Apple Inc. faces a fear that the corporate business has worried about happening before in the past. Privacy rights and laws and breaking what is in place, but for good or bad reason.

Many Govt. websites use unauthorized software to track users. There has been 64 reported Govt. websites using this software. They did this by tracking the cookies that other computers pick up while visiting their sites.

The dispute between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over access to a single iPhone is becoming one of the first great national disputes of the Digital Age. Apple vs. FBI is only the first step in figuring out where new boundaries that protect our core freedoms will exist in a wireless, digital age.