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| Source |  AlienVault Lab Blog |
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| Identifiant | 8618898 |
| Date de publication | 2024-12-03 07:00:00 (vue: 2024-12-03 07:07:58) |
| Titre | Best Ways to Reduce Your Digital Footprint Now |
| Texte | Every activity you perform online, whether it is commenting on a news article, sharing something on social media or your shopping preferences leaves a digital footprint. This digital trail helps organizations find more about you. And while it does offer a certain degree of convenience, it can be a real hazard to your online privacy. Fortunately, there are several ways you can use to reduce your digital footprint and help ensure your privacy. Understanding Your Digital Footprint A digital footprint is a trail of data a person leaves online while using the internet. This data includes your search history, photos and videos you might have uploaded, newsletter subscriptions and more. Also known as the \'digital shadow,\' your footprint data can help paint a picture of who you are. Therefore, most apps, websites and online marketers use your digital footprint to personalize your browsing experience. However, your online footprint can also wreck your online privacy in several ways and is one of the common causes of data breaches. Since almost every action is recorded online, the record that forms a footprint is unique to every user. The type of footprint depends on how it is left or collected. There are two main types of digital footprints: Active Digital Footprint An active digital footprint is the data you intentionally leave online or rather the things you actively do online. This includes your online posts, comments, online shopping or even signing up for a newsletter. All these things are parts of your active digital footprint. Passive Digital Footprint A passive digital footprint is the data you share unintentionally. This data usually depends on the cookies that a website is using whenever you visit it. Using cookies, a website may track how many times you have visited it, your biometric and geolocation data and even your IP address. Both active and passive digital footprints can be tracked and stored by multiple sources. If you are curious about how to check your digital footprint, consider these four main methods: search your name on popular search engines like Google and Yahoo, use digital footprint checkers, check your public accounts and also look for data breaches through breach detection services. Does My Digital Footprint Disrupt My Online Privacy? Can I Delete It? A digital footprint is permanent, and deleting it is next to impossible. Once your data is public, you have little control over how others use it. All the information left behind due to your online activities is used and stored by third-party services, your services providers or the government. However, one of the most dangerous aspects of an online footprint is that you never know how big it is. Since every app and site collects, stores and shares bits of your information, there is no way to completely track and eliminate all that information. This means that even the parts of your life you would want to keep private such as your medical information can be revealed online through your online orders or search history. Here are some ways your online footprint disrupts your privacy: Information is valuable to cybercriminals, who can exploit your digital footprint. They can gather enough relevant information to commit identity theft, phishing, cyberbullying and bank scams. You receive more spam emails and phone calls. Since your information is shared publicly and with third parties, it is one of the reasons you receive spam emails. Potential employers may gain access to outdated and unwanted information and reject you on that basis. According to a study, seven out of ten employers run an employee background check on social media platforms and have rejected 57% of people |
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