DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

1. What is a Digital Footprint?

   • Digital footprints are the records and traces we leave behind us as we use the internet.
   • Digital Footprints come with both benefits and costs
   • Digital Footprints contribute to your online reputation and what organizations see

2. Why did we start leaving such big footprints?

   • We leave Big Footprints due to the fact that we leave traces from cookies

3. What is the economic bargain for Internet users?

   • The heavy use of digital footprints to track users and customize content is an outgrowth of the basic economic again of the Internet, because most of the infrastructure of the Internet is funded by marketing in some form.
   • They gain revenue from advertisements as well

4. Are Digital footprints a problem?

   • Yes because its a loss of privacy
   • But No as well since it lets you gain insight of employees for employers

5. Do different devices make different digital footprints?

   • Smartphones and Tablets tend to leave a very different footprint from laptops and desktops
   • Smartphones create more intrusive footprints

6. How can I manage my Digital footprint?

   • Use Thought, Time, and Effort
   • Develop Good Habits, Understand the basic issues, become a sophisticated user, use specific privacy enhancing tools

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

   • Advertisers,Publishers, and Aggregators.
   • They find you with cookies

8. Why dynamics are at work with Digital footprints

   • Economic Dynamic, Dynamic of Convienence, and Cultural Dynamic
   • We use dynamics to collect data

9. How does Legislation affect Digital Footprints?

   • It doesn't allow anyone to access too much into our privacy