Users often come to us to help fix their digital mistakes and help rebuild their online reputation.  During this session, we will discuss how to help users and ourselves remove their online social media presence.  Join Justin Denton, to learn how to erase that wild party you called Social Media.  During this session, we will explore: How to erase your social media accounts. How to eliminate the embarrassing photos from the archive servers. How to put yourself back on track to a more professional image on the internet. With this session, you will gain the tools to help users take control of out of control social media accounts. 

1. Helping Users Disconnect
Building an Exit Plan: Pulling the plug on your online life.
Leave no trace

2. Helping Users Disconnect.
May 25 - 12-1 ET/11-12 CT:
Users often come to us to help fix their digital mistakes and help rebuild their
online reputation. During this session, we will discuss how to help users and
ourselves remove their online social media presence. Join Justin Denton, to
learn how to erase that wild party you called Social Media. During this
session, we will explore:
• How to erase your social media accounts.
• How to eliminate the embarrassing photos from the archive servers.
• How to put yourself back on track to a more professional image on the internet.
With this session, you will gain the tools to help users take control of out of
control social media accounts.

3. What you need to know
• There are Backups!
• Removing your image completely
will take time.
• We can perform quick fixes to help
alleviate most problem areas.
• But to truly remove yourself you
need to plan on those changes to
populate to the backups.

4. How Data Retention Works?
• Data retention is the length of
time a company determines they
wish to keep information on a
backup.
• IE If you delete something today
it may reside on backups for
years.
• Backing up lots of data typically
has faster retention cycles.
https://storage.googleapis.com/snap-inc/privacy/lawenforcement.pdf

5. What Are Digital Footprints?
• We have referred to the digital footprints earlier, but it
would be best to add some examples of digital traces left
behind by us without us knowing.
• When we log in to our Facebook account and we update our
status.
• When we check our emails with the respective application.
• When we head to YouTube and watch or like a video.
• When we read the sports column at a website.
• When we search for specific clothing “WE” automatically
feed the BEST OF TRACKING.
• There is literally nothing that we do online that does not
make us more exposed to those who seek to grab the
opportunity and learn more about us.
• What happens if our digital footprints grow bigger and
bigger?
• Who takes advantage of such information and is it so bad
to leave these traces appear online?

6. What Effects Do Digital Footprints Have?
• Now that we have set our mind at what a digital footprint is, we have to see what
the impact of these details is in the long run.
• It goes without even saying that such data piles up and becomes stronger by the minute.
• The details then can be used for targeting online advertising in the most suitable manner
for maximizing the effect of each ad, as well as gaining personal information of yours
without your consent.
• If you wish to become well aware of the extent of exposure that you have been
suffering thanks to digital footprints, there are several tools that can help you
out.
• First of all, there is Google Alarm that you can download for free.
• This allows you to spot Google every single time there is an effort made on its part
towards tracking you down. You know that Google has been collecting data and it has
been accused for doing so in various occasions.
• Another option for folks was the Digital Footprint Calculator from EMC, but it’s been
discontinued from them now.
• Last but not least, the Network Advertising Initiative has issued guidelines alarming you
on the issue of online spying and scanning your system towards finding out important
information.
• In general, you can be pretty sure that almost every single website you visit adds
to the overall exposure of yours and helps trace back to you somehow.
• This is why you need to take a stand and come up with the most effective ways to
erase your digital footprint. Let’s break it down and show you how you can do
that promptly and efficiently, shall we?

7. How to Delete Digital Footprints
• You ought to be kept vigilant about the
privacy breaches that derive from your web
surfing experience every single time. This
does not mean that you are discouraged
from using the Internet as a whole; on the
contrary, the Internet should be celebrated
as a powerful and versatile tool that can be
used for innumerable things in life. Still, you
ought to beware of the consequences and
eliminate any threats. Here is how you can
do that:

8. Your valuable time spreading your footprint.
• How much time do you spend connected to
the internet?
• If you're a message junkie, YouTube addict, or use
the web for business, you are leaving tracks that
can be followed.
• We all have what has been dubbed a 'digital
footprint' with some being larger than
others.
• The question being asked today is how is this
footprint affecting our privacy?
• And when we want to remove content, why is
this so difficult, as many celebrities have
discovered over the last few years?

9. Keeping a Check on your FootPrint.
• Search for yourself. To gain an insight into how widespread your
digital footprint actually is, try searching your name with various
spellings.

11. How to reduce your footprint
There are a variety of techniques you can use to reduce the digital trail that
you leave:
1. Check all your privacy settings
2. Remove old accounts
3. Unsubscribe from mailing lists
4. Register with a different email address
5. Use stealth mode when browsing
6. Think before you post
7. Tor browsing
8. Use anti-tracking tools

12. Tools to Use
• Justdelete.me
• Accountkiller.com
• Deseat.me
• Abine.com

13. Limitations on Deletions
• Much like Vegas, what happens on the Internet stays
on the Internet. While you can remove most
information about you, tools like the Internet
Archive exist.
• The Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” crawls the web
everyday and stores billions of past websites forever.
• There is no way to remove sites that have been crawled.
• If it was at one point on the Internet, it can be found on the
Wayback Machine.
• Still, by following the steps taken above, you will
regain some of your privacy while preventing
amateur sleuths from finding you.