Cyber & IT Supervisory Forum - Additional Resources

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What Is Digital Exhaust? Digital Exhaust is data on the Internet about you. 6 78 It is all the information or “ consumer data ” a person creates as they interact with web sites and services. You create some of it and others create some of it about you. 9, 10 These data points are exploitable to find, target, and track you. 11 Your Digital Exhaust holds extremely sensitive information that names you and reveals your private activities. Controlling Digital Exhaust is possible but complex. 12 This document serves to make it easy, or at least easier. Why Should You Care? Because your privacy matters. Consider the vast amounts of personal information that different services hold about us and be mindful of what you give other organizations access to. 13 The privacy choices you make can have lasting impacts on you and your loved ones for better or worse. 14 This guide is laid out for you in a way that is the key difference in aiding Law Enforcement employees and their families in opting out of their data and taking positive steps towards keeping their Digital Exhaust from repopulating and out of the hands of a variety of threat actors. 15 Why Do I Need A Guide? Every interaction you have with the internet and technological tools leaves a trace, and these traces can be valuable. 16 Heading into this blindly will consume and waste a lot of your time. 17 Not anymore. These preventative measures are simple enough to employ and use safely in everyday life, both physically and online, while comprehensive enough to deny spectrum access to threat actors who could gain important operational advantages at the expense of you – a Law Enforcement employee – or your family. 18

Where Do I Fit Into Digital Exhaust?

Here. This is you.

Figure 1. Digital Exhaust Ecosystem.

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