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Digital footprint

Digital footprint or digital shadow refers to one's unique set of traceable digital activities, actions, contributions, and communications manifested on the Internet or digital devices. Digital footprints can be classified as either passive or active. Passive footprints consist of a user's web-browsing activity and information stored as cookies. Users…

Privacy issues, Impacts & Media and information literacy

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Types of digital footprints

Privacy issues

Impacts

Media and information literacy

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Digital footprint

Nodes66
Edges65
Triples102
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030303
Components1

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Digital footprint

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related to Workforce · 16
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related to Children · 11
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related to Privacy issues · 11
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related to Inequality · 10
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related to Education · 9
Digital footprint → Grounded, However, In, MIL, Organizations, Privacy Literacy, Sociocultural, UNESCO, UNICEF
related to Types of digital footprints · 8
Digital footprint → Active, Although, Examples, In, IP, Passive, The, They
related to Teenagers · 6
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related to Media and information literacy · 5
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college admissionsinstance ofeven children generate larger digital footprints with potential positive and negative consequences0.80text
public housinginstance ofThis creates new barriers to services0.80text
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ageinstance ofCompanies can infer demographic attributes0.80text
genderinstance ofCompanies can infer demographic attributes0.80text
and political orientation without explicit disclosureinstance ofCompanies can infer demographic attributes0.80text
Digital footprintrelated to ChildrenGeneration Alpha0.60section
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Digital footprintrelated to ChildrenParents0.60section
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