Digital Footprint

Digital Footprint

1. What Is a Digital Footprint?

   • A digital footprint is the stuff you leave behind on the internet such as comments on social media.

2. Why Did We Start Leaving Such Big Footprints?

   • Third Parties
   • Paying Bills Online
   • Leaving explicit details of your location on social media

3. What Is The Economic Bargain for Internet Users?

   • Paying Indirectly
   • Social circle being monetized
   • Personal Data Collected

4. Are Digital Footprints A Problem?

   • Violation of Privacy
   • Leak Information
   • It takes very little information to tear the veil of anonymity

5. Do Different Devices Make Different Digital Footprints?

   • Smartphones and tablets tend to leave a very different footprint from laptops and desktop computers
   • Smartphones are location aware
   • The same principle of some type of authentication and registration applies to payment, banking, and Internet services

6. How Do I manage My Digital Footprint?

   • Improve your understanding of the basic issues
   • Develop your “basic hygiene” habits
   • Find and use specific privacy-enhancing tools.

7. Who Is Tracking Me and How Do They Do It?

   • Google tracks your location based on your IP adress
   • When you browse a website, the site places a tracking cookie in your web browser
   • The browser will only send back the URL of the content that you looked for and the cookie to the web site that set them

8. What Dynamics Are At Work In The World of Digital Footprints?

   • cultural dynamic
   • economic dynamic
   • dynamic of convenience

9. How Does Legislation Affect Digital Footprints?

   • Some countries have laws that are designed to protect pre-defined classes of data that are traditionally considered more sensitive
   • there is no privacy or data protection law that applies everywhere in the world
   • Some countries and regions, such as Europe, take a rights-based approach towards data protection and privacy