Digital Footprint

Digital Footprint

1. What is a Digital Foot Print?

   • Digital footprints are the records and traces we leave behind us as we us the internet
   • Digital Footprints contribute your reputation online and in person
   • Digital Footprints are visible to organizations with whom we have no relationship, and people we have no control over.

2. Why did we start leaving such big Footprints?

   • Our visits to different service provider generate data about you that piles up at each locations
   • Over time, technology has created profiles of internet users
   • Each time you visit a website, you reveal some information about yourself to the owner of the website

3. What is the economic bargain for internet users?

   • For Almost every internet site, every time you look at a web page, someone has an interest in showing you an advertisement.
   • If you don't pay a subscription for, that service is funded by monetizing informations about us, our local circles and our collective interests and preference.
   • If you pay a subscription for a service, or a premium for na "Ad-free version"

4. Are digital footprints a problem?

   • Yes, Because they can be used to track us
   • Yes, there is a loss of privacy
   • There is a build up of what you do

5. Do different devices make different digital footprints?

   • Mobile devices, in particular, give users less ability to connect anonymously.
   • Data CAN be shared explicitly through emails.
   • Smartphones and tablets tend to leaver a very different footprint from laptops and desktops

6. How can I manage my digital footprint?

   • Thought
   • Time
   • Effort

7. Who is tracking me and how do they do it?

   • Advertiser and Companies
   • Publishers are companies
   • Location services

8. What dynamics are at work with digital footprints

   • Cultural Themes
   • Convenience Theme
   • Economic Themes

9. How does legislations affect our digital footprint?

   • some countries have laws that are designed to protect pre-defined classes of data
   • Through many laws and rights.
   • Consistency and legal prote