1. Tracing Your Steps Understanding Your Digital Footprint Presented by:
Jill Neuhard and Cheryl Capozzoli

2. Digital Dossier

4. Digital Shadow images on a surveillance camera bank records
retail and airline purchase records
telephone records
medical database entries, copies of hospital scans
information about your web searches
information about credit card purchases, etc.

5. Who are YOU?
More content we contribute, the more we are findable & knowable
9 out of 10 users who locate info about themselves say most of what they find is accurate (up 74% from 6 yrs. ago)
Skeletons in Your Internet Closet

7. Awareness
Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint
47% have searched for information about themselves online
Google.com, PublicRecords.com, BeenVerified.com, WhitePages.com
3% of self-searchers report that they make a regular habit of it
74% have checked up on their digital footprints only once or twice

8. In the Work Place...

9. The Semantic Web
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10. What Category are You In?

11. For Fun....Digital Footprint Calculator
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12. What can I do to protect my digital identity?
Keep track of sites and profiles created
Remove sites and profiles you are no longer using
Stay current on Privacy Policies
Google Dashboard (google.com/dashboard)
Erase Tweets (TwitWipe)
RESISTANCE? Electronic Frontier Foundation
EXTREME: IE8 InPrivate browsing, Proxy Services (Anonymizer)

13. What can we do as parents and educators?
Teach digital citizenship and responsibility
ISTE’s NETS- Promote and Model
Expose and educate students, don’t “power down”
Beyond “netiquette”- safe authoring, participation and literacy