Mapping your
Digital
Footprint
A K Goel
June’16 | OWASP Delhi Chapter Meet

What’s so fancy
about this?
Digital Footprint
the stuff you leave behind as you
use the Internet
Social media comments, check-ins, last seen
status, skype calls, flickr timeline, app use
and email records

Hard facts
Footprint is permanent
and internet is broken!

Active and Passive
footprint
Best way to monitor: self-policing.
Leading to becoming a self
proclaimed creep
the DARPA connection - lifelogging

Adopting a positive
digital footprint
• Be up-to-date
• Ensure privacy
• Singular handle across the board
• No report abuse history
• Remain off-line
• Polite behaviour
• Indulge in Constructive discussions
• Be responsible – don’t support
Piracy

How to erase your
digital footprint
• Search yourself regularly
• Deactivate old profiles
• Be a ninja with privacy settings
• Add false info before going off a portal
• Contact Webmasters
• Unsubscribe from mailing lists
• Have a secondary email account for all dirty
work
• The right to be forgotten
• Check retail accounts
• Cover your tracks – incognito

You know nothing
about how your information is being used