My Digital FootPrint

Not that I agree with this – but always good to have many views.

Different to ideas presented here by Robin Wright (founder of Engine) who was exploring why the human brain demands so much more energy to change its mind - the implication is that loyalty is actually laziness.  Also worth reading is Nir Eyal who blogs at Nir and Far - who writes about behavior and the brain - he has an interesting post on how we deceive ourselves which aligns with Daniel Ariely work. 

Image source : http://hackcartoonsdiary.com/2009/04/06/psssst/   When writing My Digital Footprint back in 2008 I decided to keep the idea of My Digital Footprint as a single concept and took the time to explain it   I explain that your, our or my "Digital Footprint" is what I say about myself, what others say about me and it is how we react to our content within the community. However, a digital footprint is also about information that electronic devices automatically add to content, location, attention, how I reached something, who sent me the content, who I send it on to etc…   Some are trying to define a digital footprint as what you post and a shadow as what others post about you.   My problem with separating them is that we need a third and fourth one which is about what the algorithm says about the data I post about myself and what the algorithm says about the data I others post about me. To me this becomes too complex so hence I kept the sing...

Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF)   has recently released   a new report   about which companies protect their users' digital data/ identities. Download the complete   Who Has Your Back? 2013   report as   a PDF from here. Executive Summary When you use the Internet, you entrust your conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what do these companies do when the government demands your private information? Do they stand with you? Do they let you know what’s going on? In this annual report, the Electronic Frontier Foundation examined the policies of major Internet companies — including ISPs, email providers, cloud storage providers, location-based services, blogging platforms, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly commit to standing with users when the government seeks access to user data. The purpose of this report is to incentivize companies to be...

Source : http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/plan-your-digital-afterlife-with.html Google has presented a new product that plans your digital afterlife – think Digital Will or Death Switch – you can instruct Google to delete your personal data and transfer your files to designated recipients, if you want them preserved for posterity. This is a class of service called managing your data after death that has been talked about a lot on My Digital Footprint. It is interesting that one of the largest players has done something about it and does highlight the importance of managing digital assets after death and is an attempt to solve a real (perceived) problem.  There is a host of companies ( Legacy Locker , Cirrus , Death Switch , Perpetu , AfterSteps ,   The Digital Beyond   DadApp , Social Safe to name a just a few) who are willing to charge you for this service and given that this is Google only data, you still need something for all your other ser...

Paris Brown  (17) was the UK's first youth police and crime commissioner and last week tweets dating back three years made her appear racist, homophobic and supportive of the drug culture.   As Paris has since recognised that even though teenagers have been brought up with digital media all around them and it is second nature to share instant snippets of their lives with their immediate peer network, it is rather difficult to remember that all your online activity is stored somewhere and can be found very easily. Context is often lost, but the words are not. However, what we often forget is that your digital footprint is made up of what you say and what others say about you.  This blog is not only part of Paris’ Digital Footprint but also mine.

Interview  by  Julian Blake  for TechCity Insider All you need is trust from TechCityInsider on Vimeo .

  Image source: globalimaging.com/images/modis-atmos.jpg     I have written nearly 30 posts about Algorithms as they are the foundation of your computing interactions and you are influenced by them. The data that you leave (willingly or not), is your digital footprint and is the basis of what an algorithm knows about you and how you can be modelled to a known data set. Data about you generated by others helps refine and confirm how well I have been able to model you and your preferences. An algorithm is, according to Wikipedia, is a step-by-step procedure for calculations. Algorithms are used for  calculation ,  data processing , and  automated reasoning .   A starting point is Dan Ariely’s work, ( Truth , Predictably Irrational , Behaviour , Desire Engines ) – from this direction you will conclude that we are creatures of habit and habits can be modelled and coded into an algorithm.  Therefore you are not as irrational as you think...

Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

  source : http://www.marketwatch.com/story/who-inherits-your-itunes-library-2012-08-23 Much has been written about the Bruce Willis "case" of his iTunes library but most digital content exists in a legal black hole..... So you want to give away your data ... You use Dad's credit cards to purchase itunes and books You have shared content from other You provide password access You have some original works You have purchased your own content.... What the terms say and what we are doing are very different but which trusted Brand is going to take us the consumer on? Tell you what lets ignore the issue and find a new format so you can buy it all again?

This post is a straight link to Wired September article on the reputation economy - worth reading in full.   http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/09/features/welcome-to-the-new-reputation-economy?page=all -

This post is a straight link to Wired September article on the reputation economy - worth reading in full.    https://www.wired.co.uk/article/welcome-to-the-new-reputation-economy

This post is a straight link to Wired September article on the reputation economy - worth reading in full.   http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/09/features/welcome-to-the-new-reputation-economy?page=all -

Kabir Kumar write a great blog here Can Digital Footprints Lead to Greater Financial Access? on CGAP, advancing financial access for the worlds poor.  It is about a full report which is here “ ..cell phone users generates data – from basic call data records , to mobile money transactional data , to data from social media usage and so on — that leaves what can be called a ‘digital footprint.’ Whether we call it digital footprint or something else, the truth is that the existence of this data is quite extraordinary for those of us interested in developing services for the poor and people with little or no formal financial access. In fact, in a number of countries, basic cell phone usage data may be the only source of information on vast sections of the low-income population that is both electronic and available in aggregate form in one or two data warehouses. In other words, it is available in a way that can be analyzed.” There is so much gr...

Source : http://www.childprotectionineducation.co.uk/blog/?p=933 Ceop plans to ramp up efforts to target child sex offenders who share indecent images of children and try to hide their “digital footprints” online In so many ways this highlights the nub of a dilemma… ·          illegal and morally wrong – ability to track/ trace and bring to justice. Versus ·          freedom of expression and free speech – if anyone can be tracked, how about those speaking out who need some level of anonymity Versus ·          access management and ability to identify – rightful control and controls Versus ·          wrongfully blamed, accused or judged and need ability to correct/ delete/ modify Versus ·          human righ...