The five violations people do without knowing they are illegal that I believe are the most serious are collecting information about children, sharing passwords, addresses, and photos of others, bullying and trolling, using other people’s internet networks, and lastly Using unofficial streaming services. I chose these five because they have the most potential for serious financial, personal, and professional damage.

Gathering information on children is creepy there is no information you need to know about
children if you do not know them. If you need the information for any reason their parents should be the ones giving you that information. People do not need to ask or illegally collect information about children. For children under 13, it violates the “Children’s Online Protection Act” which bares heavy legal action if you violate it.

Sharing passwords, addresses, and photos of others can be another risky illegal act. Sharing
people’s addresses, especially with the intent to harm is illegal, as well as posting a photo of
someone that was taken on privet property without their consent. In addition, sharing people’s passwords without their consent is also illegal, but it can also get the person hacked and they could lose all their personal information and this could cause various bad things for them. For example, they could have their bank hacked, have their information leaked out to even more people, and many other things could happen to them.

Applications that people communicate on and individual people have the authority to take action against cyberbullying. Now that more and more people have access to the internet people are at a greater risk of being cyberbullied so it is becoming more of a problem. With the increasing problem of cyberbullying people have been more physically and mentally hurt by this problem, so the amount of legal action you can take has been increasing with it.

Stealing people’s WIFI that they solely pay for without their permission is illegal. However, it is
also dangerous too. If you do not know whose internet you are on your data could be at risk. If you were able to access their WIFI it is possible someone else could be too, and this could lead to you getting hacked because you are sharing the same network connection which makes it so much easier for the hacker. The hacker could even be the one hosting the WIFI connection.

Using unofficial streaming services is illegal because it is stealing content made by someone else and streaming it most of the time for free. Connecting to these services could be dangerous for you as well. These services are stealing content or data from other services, so they most likely are stealing yours as well. These services taking your data could cause many problems that take a long time to fix.