Minimizing My Digital Footprint
Reducing digital footprint in an era where everyone runs after internet cash sounds foolish, but here is why I am pretty much ok with it.
For the last few months, I have significantly reduced my digital footprint.
Next, I will target my social media accounts. In the next couple of months, I plan to remove most personal details from platforms like Facebook and Instagram. My motive is not absolute anonymity, but greater privacy and eliminating the behavioral profile data available about me online.
Running after online money, fame, etc is fine, in face it reduces a lot of financial burden. But sometimes I feel it comes with a cost. And the cost is my privacy. Not only mine, but for the people I love and care about. I don't want my small mistakes to backfire on my friends and families.
These days, malicious actors can utilize largely available behavioral data on us, that is available online and perform scams, frauds, identity theft, and with AI in picture, I can only see this rising on a daily basis.
I am worried about it, and I need to act before it is too late.