It's a scary thought but the truth of the matter is that now a day's police use a lot of technology devices in order to catch criminals in the act or after the fact. A major example of this is Facebook. The police are using it to locate criminals and even missing people. Even people who have to go to court or are trying to lie about something will sometimes have their Facebook page thrown at them when they least expect it. In some cases posts on a person's Facebook or Myspace page can be used to present the person's real attitudes and help to determine if the defendant has been honest during the trial and/or to determine an appropriate sentence for the person. The police use these websites as a source of evidence against people. If you are lying about something to the police and they go on your page and it shows a contradiction to what you have said you will get BOOKED. Many people don't realize that what you publish on the internet (doesn't matter if your profile is set to private; there's always a way around it) people will be able to access it and to, in some cases, use it against you, like the police very often do. It has even become apparent that police are using Facebook and Myspace as a means to find underage drinkers online. Many people tend to put pictures of themselves drinking alcohol or smoking marijuana on their page but what they don't realize is that this can be used against them "in a court of law". Other technological devices that the police have been known to use are cell phones and GPS's. What many people don't realize is that most new cellular devices have GPS and that if a police officer needs to look for you they do have the means to access this GPS system and locate you.
Technology has been a great invention for man, but it has also caused many problems in the sense that nothing is private anymore. 
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