Without a Trace - response to Internet Safety Project

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This is a response to Without a Trace post at http://www.internetsafetyproject.org/  The post implies to think about digital footprints in two ways – about size and type. 

Alas this ignores the importance web 2.0 thinking.  The web is a read/ write web, it is create/ consume and you don’t exist in isolation. 

A digital footprint is about three core bits of thinking.

  1. what you say about yourself
  2. what others say about you
  3. what the analysis of (your and others) data implies about you and your behaviour

In this regard size does not matter; access to you data does!