Digital footprint refers to all of a person’s activities online. Is it possible to wipe it off?
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Digital footprint refers to all of a person’s activities online. Is it possible to wipe it off?
Depending on your online activity, it can get quite cumbersome to delete all your online traces. Do keep in mind that it is almost impossible to completely delete yourself from the internet if you have spent enough time on it. There is a chance your data might be lurking on the dark web, someone might have stolen your data before you could delete it, or simply its stored on a company server and that choose not to delete it. However, in most cases, you are sure to delete most of the publicly available information about you with the use of some tools available on the internet.
Unfortunately, this isn’t really feasible, from what I understand. Do not share shit you don’t want other people to know, keep photos of yourself off the net if you don’t want to be identified. That’s basically it. Unfortunately the tech solutions nowadays just reduce the risk, they don’t eliminate it completely. Especially since it is very to hard to, for example, use Tor all the the time, or to never reference your real-world identity or anything about it, or to type in a way that copies JK Rowling instead of following your own patterns of typing and speech. So, the practical solution is, keep reading, keep learning, keep taking steps to lessen the risk of leaking all your information, keep taking steps to increase your privacy online.