Social media allows us to study and anticipate operations against the governments, whether carried out by both hostile governments or by groups of hacktivists. The main problem is the transparency of surveillance actions and they do not lead to preventive actions that violate the medieval freedom of expression. As always, the solution will be represented by the compromise between security and freedom of access to information to information. The FBI has announced that its planning the development of a specific application that can track the public user’s activities on the main social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter and other social networks)”]