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It is recommended you follow the order of this Guide as presented. Doing so will aid you with the reduction of your Digital Exhaust, particularly in securing your Web Browser, which is a critical part of removing your Digital Exhaust.  To navigate the guide, open it as a PDF document in Adobe® Acrobat® application.  Select View > Show/Hide > Navigation Panes > Bookmarks from the Adobe® Acrobat® main menu. The Bookmarks panel appears on the left side of the screen in the navigation pane. Press the Bookmarks icon in the navigation pane to open the Bookmarks panel. If Bookmarks panel is open, then clicking on the icon will close it. Purpose The Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide 4.0 supersedes version 3.0 which was published in July 2022 and is being updated as of February 2023. This Guide was created to mitigate risk for Law Enforcement employees and their families as it pertains to protecting their personal information, which is vulnerable to exploitation. This risk includes potential for threat actors to find, target, and track anyone affiliated with the Law Enforcement via use of open source, Internet-based services offering searches of data aggregated about the American public. To mitigate this risk, this Guide was created as a first-of-its-kind aid for the Law Enforcement Community in highlighting and presenting recommendations to reduce these vulnerabilities. This document is for informational purposes only. Questions about this document can be directed to the email address listed below in Section 3.5. Limiting Liability This Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide was prepared as a collection of best practices to aid Law Enforcement employees. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, or process shown. Reference here to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed here do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof. Links The appearances of hyperlinks, which are external to Law Enforcement databases, are provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they are not an endorsement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality, or 3 D ISCLAIMER

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