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Digital footprints

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Digital footprints A digital footprint is a trail of data you create while using the Internet. It includes the websites you visit, emails you send, and information you submit to online services. A "passive digital footprint" is a data trail you unintentionally leave online.Digital footprint or digital shadow refers to your unique set of traceable digital activities, actions, contributions and communications manifested on the Internet or on digital devices. On the World Wide Web, the internet footprint; also known as cyber shadow, electronic footprint, or digital shadow, is the information left behind as a result of a user's web-browsing and stored as cookies. The term usually applies to an individual person, but can also refer to a business, organization and corporation.  There are two main classifications for digital footprints: passive and active . A passive digital footprint is data collected without the owner knowing (also known as data exhaust),whereas active digital...