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Topic Selected: Protecting Our Privacy Book Volume: 451

Why is privacy online important?

Every time we share something online we add a bit more information about ourselves to the online world. This includes posting a photo, writing a comment or liking someone’s video.

The trail of information we create when we share things online is often called our ‘digital footprint’. People we know, and people we don’t know, can see our digital footprint and use it to learn more about us.

This means sometimes people can see things online or learn things about u...

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