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Module 0: Introduction to the
training course
Digital Data Footprint
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2.
Digital Footprint
• What is a digital footprint?
• What do pupils need to consider?
• How to find your footprint
• What you can do about it
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What is a digital footprint?
• the trail of information you leave behind when you
use the internet.
• things that are visible online like social media posts
from you and other people.
• photos, status updates, check-ins at locations, online
groups and sites that you’ve liked or joined, and
posts from other people that you’ve shared
• information about you based on your activity.
personal information, messages and emails you send,
and so on
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4.
Where does your Digital
Footprint come from?
Your Digital footprint consists of two areas
• Your passive digital footprint - a data trail you
unintentionally leave online, when you visit a
website, the web server can log your IP address,
which identifies your Internet service provider
and your approximate location, or using data
roaming on your phone
• Another part of your passive digital footprint is
your search history, which is saved by some
search engines while you are logged in.
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5.
Where does your Digital
Footprint come from?
The second part of your footprint is
• An active digital footprint – it includes data that you
intentionally submit online.
• Sending an email contributes to your active digital
footprint, since you expect the data be seen and/or
saved by another person.
• When setting up digital accounts, like joining a social
media channel, you are providing information which
is stored online
• Even "liking" a page or a Facebook post adds to your
digital footprint
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6.
Digital Footprint for pupils
Pupils need to:
• Be aware of their Digital Footprint,
where are they now?
• Consider the online reputation they
want to have in the future
• Be able to identify the path to achieve it,
how they will do it
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7.
Finding your Footprint
To find your digital footprint:
• look at all social media sites used (like
Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn,
Twitter, etc.)
• do an internet search of your names
• identify anything you don’t like, was
unexpected or problematic
• suggest what should be changed
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8.
Digital Footprint: what can
you do?
On social media:
• only accept friend/follow requests from
people you know in real life.
• set privacy setting so information about
you (including images) is not visible to
the public
• change settings, if necessary, so others
need your permission to tag you in posts
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9.
Digital Footprint: what can
you do?
• Delete things that you don’t want others
to see. This may not remove them
completely if they have been shared by
others or stored elsewhere, but you can
make them harder to find.
• Reset passwords. Make sure they are
strong and do not share them!
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10.
The Right To Be Forgotten
• Right to be Forgotten can be used in cases where you
want to remove information gathered about you on
Search Engines and in directories
• In the EU you have to request data erasure under Article
15 of GDPR (data protection regulations)
• This is normally because:
– You no longer consent to the processing of your data
– There are significant errors within the data
– You believe that they are being stored unnecessarily
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11.
The Right To Be Forgotten
• Article 17 of GDPR offers counter-arguments, for
instance where data gathering is used to comply with
legal obligations or where it serves public interests.
• Be aware that companies have the right to charge
you a fee in order to proceed your request to erase
data
• Visit https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ for more
details
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