Digital Footprints

What is a digital footprint?

• When you drop your mobile device.

• A footprint left by a robot.

• Traces we leave behind as we use the internet

Answer explanation

Four reasons to care about your digital footprint.

(choose 4 correct answers)

• protecting your reputation

• preserving your freedom

• maintaining your ability to decide how your personal information is shared

• preventing financial loss

• to make ordering take out food easier and faster

How can your digital footprint be taken out of context or misinterpreted?

• If a company uses your digital footprint to assume something about you based on other users with the same footprint

• If you protect your digital footprint well.

• If you spend enough money to mislead them.

• none of the options.

What information could you possibly only want to share in specific context.

• Medical

• Financial

• Religeous

• All of the options given.

How do criminals get hold of personal information for identity theft?

• Hack databases and combine personal information previously shared on other platforms.

• The government provides the information to them for free.

• By playing online games and scoring high scores.

• none of the above.

Ways to protect and minimise your digital footprint.

(choose 3 correct answers)

• Avoid doing any business online.

• Use different, strong passwords across platforms.

• Think before you enter personal information.

• Create chatrooms where you can safely share your personal information.

• Be careful what and how many apps you download.

Many government organisations track social media sites for political statements.

• False, the government does not have access to social media.

• True, some people have been arrested based on social media content.

Location tracking on mobile devices could be very dangerous, especially to young people.

• False, tracking of other people is against the law.

• False, tracking on mobile devices is only used for parents to see where their own children are.

• True, but mobile devices do not have tracking software installed.

• True, posting your location online, could open a door for criminals to track underaged children and potentially cause harm.

Complete the phrase:

The more of our lives we conduct online, the

• more exposed we are to risks.

• more people will like us for who we really are.

• better our lives will be, we do not need the real world.

• faster our internet speed will be.