Digital Footprint How the track you How you can escape

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

2. 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

3. Hard facts
Footprint is permanent
and internet is broken!

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. You know nothing
about how your information is being used