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What is a Digital Footprint?

In a digital society, everything we do online (and even, increasingly, offline), leaves digital traces. These traces accumulate into a “digital footprint” that we never see, and which we do not control. This module will help you understand what your digital footprint is, and its implications for you.

Skills / Knowledge

  • Digital footprints are the records and traces we leave behind us as we use the Internet, every time we use the Internet
  • Digital footprints come with both benefits and costs
  • Your digital footprints are bigger than you may have thought, and they are being used - usually for commercial purposes, but sometimes for other reasons - to track you, customize for you, and market to you

Issued on

August 20, 2024

Expires on

Does not expire