Three Ted Talks for Thinking about Your Online Footprint

It is an assumed part of modern society to have an online footprint. Even the most reluctant of us have some sort of digital trail. To be totally off the grid takes serious work and know-how.

Does this mean we surrender all control and reveal everything? Certainly not, but that’s easier said than done. We have to make an effort to understand how our information is collected, who is using it and what we reveal with even the simplest of actions: a like.

Here are three TED talks that explain how your information is used, and in many cases manipulated, when you share it online. From your bona fides to your personal preferences, it’s all out there for the taking.

When you watch these short videos, keep in mind not only your personal information, but that of your business. In what ways can your business’s information be collected and manipulated as leverage?

FINN LUTZOW-HOLM MYRSTAD: HOW TECH COMPANIES DECEIVE YOU INTO GIVING UP YOUR DATA AND PRIVACY

EVA GALPERIN: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STALKERWARE

JENNIFER GOLBECK: YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA “LIKES” EXPOSE MORE THAN YOU THINK