Technology is in everything we do, from using our home refrigerator, washing machine, cellular device, automobile and/or computer systems. When you use certain devices you may potentially disclose information about your private personal information to others. This information may include bank account and credit card numbers, pins and/or passwords. Subconsciously we don't even realize that we could share this information. We provide information that is randomly requested when we enter a dentist's or doctor's office, a local liquor store, or when we use social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, Yahoo and/or Google. Is all of this collected, stored and monitored by Big Brother, and what does our government do with it and how does it protect this data? What surprises me most is that most Americans didn't even recognize that the National Security Agency (NSA) had been collecting data on Americans' personal phones and electronic devices for several years. This was long before NSA analyst Edward Snowden revealed these facts to the world in late 2013. The NSA was created in the 1950s and during this time the NSA disseminated intelligence information from electronic signals for foreign and counterintelligence to support our armed forces. needs. Now the NSA has refocused its spying tactics with current technological changes and has an extensive “telephone metadata program, since 2001, and has collected the phone records of virtually all Americans” (Lizza, 2013). “In addition to phone records and email logs, the NSA uses Facebook and other social media profiles to create maps of social connections, including those of American citizens” (Simpson & Brown, 2013). The NSA spends “$25… middle of paper… on anization. Retrieved from http://www.niso.org/publications/press/RFP_Writers_Guide.pdfLabott, E., & Shoichet, C. (2013, October 28). NSA Spying Claims: Five Things You Need to Know. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/28/politics/nsa-spying-key-questions/Lizza, R. (2013, December 31). The metadata program in eleven documents. THE NEW YORKER, Retrieved from http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/12/a-history-of-the-metadata-program-in-eleven-documents.htmlMusil, S. (2013 , December 10). The NSA said it uses Google cookies to track surveillance targets. Retrieved from http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57615206-38/nsa-said-to-use-google-cookies-to-track-surveillance-targets/Simpson, D., & Brown, P. (2013, September 30). The NSA looks for connections on Facebook, including American's profiles. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/us/nsa-social-networks/