digital footprint

English

Noun

digital footprint (plural digital footprints)

1. (telecommunications) Digital evidence of a person's activities and interactions with others on the Internet, TV, mobile devices, etc.

   Synonyms: digital exhaust, digital shadow

   • 2012, Nicholas Croce, Enhancing Your Academic Digital Footprint, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 6:

     On the other hand, a positive digital footprint can enhance a person's reputation.

   • 2013, Amy Lupold Bair, Raising Digital Families For Dummies‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     A person's digital footprint is essentially a digital first impression. As I mention in Chapter 1, a child's digital footprint includes all information related to that child posted online.

   • 2015, James Cohen, Thomas Kenny, Producing New and Digital Media […] , CRC Press, →ISBN, page 239:

     What you most likely found through researching your digital footprint before you branded yourself is that you are a very creative individual who used a vast number of new media tools and technologies […]

Translations

digital evidence of a person's activities on the Internet

• Catalan: petjada digital f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數字足跡／数字足迹 (shùzì zújì), 數碼足跡／数码足迹 (shùmǎ zújì)

• Danish: elektronisk fodspor n
• Finnish: digitaalinen jalanjälki
• French: trace numérique f
• German: digitaler Fußabdruck m
• Irish: lorg digiteach m
• Portuguese: rastro digital m, pegada digital f
• Russian: цифрово́й след m (cifrovój sled), цифрово́й отпеча́ток m (cifrovój otpečátok)
• Spanish: rastro digital m

See also

• carbon footprint