Digital Footprint

The things I learned about digital footprints are A digital footprint is the data trail left by interactions in a digital enviornment including the use of tvs and moblile phones.The activities and behaviours recorded may include system login and logouts, visits to a web-page, accessed or created files, emails, chat messages or any other material showing the activities undertaken. Some of this material may be available publicly to anyone searching for it for while other material may be inaccessible without access rights or, for some kinds of data that are not usually available publicly, legal action. Interested parties can use data they have found for evidence, data mining or profiling purposes. Digital footprints are not a digital identdent  or passport , but the meta data collected impacts upon internet privicay  trust security , digital reputaution  and recommation  As the digital world expands and integrates with more aspects of life, ownership and rights of data becomes important. Digital footprints are controversial in that privacy and openness are in competition