Digital footprint

Digital footprint

1. Are the record and traces that we leave behind has we use the internet

2. Your digital footprints allows other to follow your actions online

3. Our digital footprints are visible to people that we don't even know

   • how can you manage your digital footprints
     • managing you digital footprint on the inter takes though, time, and effort
     • there are four levels at which you can chose to manage and control your digital footprints

4. When you use the internet you know you have given up some control of your privacy away

5. Why did we start leaving such big footprints

   • The explicit digital footprints we leave behind are obviose to us
   • Each time you visit a website you reveal some information about yourself to the owner of the website
   • Cookie is a one way of tying multiple actions by a single user
   • Websites generally set a cookie in an instant when you first visit the site
   • each digital footprints are small but if linked together they can form a surprisingly complete profile about you

6. What is the economic bargain for internet users

   • The commercial side of the internet has capitalized on the opportunities digital footprints represent
   • Publishers and marketers exploit digital footprint to target their products at the most appropriate audience
   • Advertiser and marketers have grown dependent on digital footprints

7. Are digital footprints a problem

   • one of the side affect of digital footprints is the loss of privacy
   • as we participate in online activities we leave behind evidence of what we have done
   • other organizations are able to trace our digital footprints not just governmnets

8. do different devices make different digital footprints

   • YES
   • smartphones are generally location aware
   • smartphones are very personal devices
   • It is easier to control how much data is shared in desktops

9. who is tracking you and how do they do it

   • three main kinds of entities that traces users and creates profiles are advertisers, publishers, aggregators

10. what dynamic are at work in the world of digital footprints

    • culture theme, economic themes, and conven