{"id":34926,"date":"2018-06-08T07:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34926"},"modified":"2018-06-08T07:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T12:57:50","slug":"how-to-almost-completely-erase-your-digital-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34926","title":{"rendered":"How To Almost Completely Erase Your Digital Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/how-to-almost-completely-erase-your-digital-footprint_07062018\/\">How To Almost Completely Erase Your Digital Footprint<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-46232 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/digitalfootprint-e1528200039942.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/digitalfootprint-e1528200039942.jpg 560w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/digitalfootprint-e1528200039942-300x186.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although its almost impossible to completely wipe out your entire digital footprint as if you\u2019ve never had access to the internet, but you can get close. If you\u2019d like to make an attempt to completely remove yourself from the internet, we\u2019ve got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/peter-gasca\/how-to-go-dark-and-disappear-online-altogether.html\">few tips and tricks that could help you along the way.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To go the full off-the-grid route, \u201cit\u2019s cash, barters,\u201d Bradley Shear, a lawyer specializing in social media told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2017\/02\/10\/erasing-yourself-from-the-internet-is-nearly-impossible-but-heres-how-you-can-try\/?utm_term=.b04f1efb9789\"><em>The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cDo not use any electronic device that can lead back to your whereabouts.\u201d\u00a0 Which leads us to the first item to consider.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing you want to do is the hardest for some, but its the most obvious. You need to quit appearing online.\u00a0 Stop posting on Facebook or Twitter and no longer use search engines.\u00a0 All of those will track your location and Internet usage leaving behind your digital footprint. Of course, just not using the internet isn\u2019t quite enough if you\u2019d like yourself completely gone in full-off-the-grid fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The next step would be deleting your online accounts. Every single one of them.\u00a0Having a social media account is, more or less,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2017\/02\/10\/erasing-yourself-from-the-internet-is-nearly-impossible-but-heres-how-you-can-try\/?utm_term=.b04f1efb9789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> ensuring your active participation <\/a>in letting the Internet learn more about you. Facebook, in particular, knows a lot about you and is very good at tracking what you do across the rest of the Web, even when you\u2019re not actively using it. If you need help deleting your accounts, consider\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/justdelete.me\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">JustDelete.Me<\/a>, which provides tips and links to remove accounts.\u00a0 But you can\u2019t just remove your accounts and expect that it\u2019s done and over with. You will also need to remove any and all information and content that is posted about you by others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Almost Completely Erase Your Digital Footprint Although its almost impossible to completely wipe out your entire digital footprint as if you\u2019ve never had access to the internet, but you can get close. If you\u2019d like to make an attempt to completely remove yourself from the internet, we\u2019ve got a few tips and tricks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[190,1868,20442,652,6787,20441,765],"class_list":["post-34926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-data","tag-data-mining","tag-digital-footprint","tag-privacy","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-sara-tipton","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34927,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34926\/revisions\/34927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}