aspg-26-1117-1792469703 20261020041503 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group Journal of Social Problems Research JSPR 2995-3200 2022 1 1 Jesus Estupiñan Ricanrdo CCGECON USA LLC, Miami, USA The current generation was practically born with technology and has evolved along with the form of communication since ICTs have provided countless platforms for personal relationships to be more effective virtually. As for harassment on social networks, these cases have not been able to be eradicated per se. This type of harassment occurs in different forms since there are different types of harassment in social networks such as harassment, blackmail, humiliation, insults, extortion, and teasing. That is why the objective of this work is to evaluate, through a critical legal analysis document, how the violation of privacy affects those who suffer from harassment or extortion in social networks in the Babahoyo canton. And in order to obtain the results, qualitative and quantitative methods were used. In the same way, a previous digital survey was applied to certain inhabitants of the citadel: El Mamey. There must be always accompaniment that, in case of being victims of harassment and violence, to make them feel heard and not guilty, to fully guarantee the rights that all the inhabitants of the Babahoyo canton have. 2022 09 15 1117 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/JSPR.010101 https://www.americaspg.com/journal/26/article/1117 https://www.americaspg.com/storage/3654.pdf