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  YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT This week we are looking into one of the scariest topics for people like me who are on the fringes of social media culture: the topic of digital tattoos, better known as digital footprint or digital shadow. A quick internet search revealed that digital footprint is defined as “the unique trail of data that a person or business creates while using the internet.” Just like other topics specific to the digital space, it seems that there is a veil that covers the topic of digital tattoo. The average internet user does not stop to think about the fact that she/he leaves a data trail on the internet that can come back and haunt them in the future. Furthermore, we do not have control over how and to whom our data is disseminated or for how long  yet the internet is replete with the drama caused by the trails left by internet users in their private and professional lives. Most of us did not ask ourselves these questions when we all jumped into the digital wo...