By : Raquel Pearsall

September 21st, 2024

You might ask what is a digital footprint? Or ‘do I have one already? ’The answer is Yes!

“Digital footprints contain valuable information about individuals’ identities, preferences, behaviors, and connections, making them a rich source of intelligence for security professionals and private investigators, (XPressGuard, 2024)”. Any interaction online leaves a digital footprint!

<< Visualization of our digital footprint, (<epam>,2024).

In my future profession as a criminologist, I’d haveto study and evaluate others’ digital footprint topossibly find them, their connections, or evenpossible future intentions.

Types of Digital footprints:

● Browsing history

● Emails, texts,video chats

● Online purchases

● Social media activity

Social Platforms, (Tzu, 2014).

“Despite the emphasis on positive digital footprints as students go forward to college and job applications, in-the-moment actions can often lead to regrets (Crompton, 2020, pg16,ph2)”. At any age you must be aware of what you post or talk aboutpublicly online. What you might agree on today, you might notnext week. Always try to be respectful to your peers andconscious in your posts.

If you’d like, watch LPUB Academic center’s take on digital footprints below!