The use of data collected from open sources, primarily from social networks, is a modern challenge for intelligence agencies, but it is also a modern problem that negatively affects user privacy. Today, primarily due to great technological progress and the increasing use of the Internet and social networks, the border between real life and life in the digital world has almost been erased. Internet users are often unaware of all the dangers and threats lurking on the Internet. This paper tries to show all the ways in which human rights are violated on the Internet with an emphasis on privacy. By analyzing the actors, their motivations, reasons and ways of using data obtained from public sources, this paper tries to show how and in what way the use of these data violates human rights and privacy. The conducted research showed who, how and why uses this data and concrete examples of human rights violations. Finally, the transformation of the concept of privacy in the modern environment, the increasing importance of data collected from public sources (OSINT) and the tendency of users to publish more and more private content are presented. The further development of technology and the increasing use of the Internet and social networks imposes the problem of human rights violations as one of the fundamental problems of modern society, which has yet to be tackled, since all earlier attempts did not give sufficiently good results. Governments, owners of websites, but also users whose rights are violated do not give enough attention and efforts to devise effective ways to protect rights on the Internet.