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Your Digital Footprint. The trail you cannot erase.
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Your Digital Footprint
The trail you cannot erase
The record every online action leaves behind, whether meant or not.
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Every search, like, share, and location ping is logged. By the time you are thirteen, thousands of data points are attached to your name. Companies collect this data to predict what you will buy, watch, or click next. The footprint is permanent. Deleting a post removes it from view, not from servers.
- Try searching your own name online. What you find is a fraction of what exists about you.
- Before posting anything, ask: would I be comfortable if this existed ten years from now?
SourceMadden et al
(2013), Pew Research teens and privacy
GDPR documentation
(2013), Pew Research teens and privacy
GDPR documentation
Keep exploring
Because you read Your Digital Footprint.
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Cyberbullying
Words that follow you home
Cruelty carried out online, where it stays searchable and does not close.
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The Password
Your weakest wall
A secret used to prove an account belongs to the person opening it.
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DigiLocker
The filing cabinet that weighs nothing
A government service holding official documents in digital form.
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