The term digital footprint refers to the trace we leave when using any service, website or application on the Internet. Our data is saved even if we are not aware of it. Passwords, emails, address, telephone number, bank details, purchasing preferences, age, gender, employment or academic status and a long list of personal information.
On many occasions we are aware of this active digital footprint, for example when we publish something on our social networks. But there is also the passive digital footprint, the one that we are barely aware of, like when a website can track our IP address or has our email address for subscribing to its newsletter. The problem with digital footprint is that it makes us especially vulnerable to cyberattacks in case our data is leaked and falls into the wrong hands.
The Instagram user @forgoodcode – with 1.6 million followers – shares content about technology of great interest and usefulness for users. Among his publications, we find a post in which he explains how to delete 99.4% of your digital footprint on the Internet.