In a time when people’s data is constantly being exploited, in order to gain profits and/or defame some person in positions of authority and people, how might someone, especially someone who is thinking about taking on a higher position in a company or government, go about erasing their digital trail? Do they hire someone to do that, and what kind of professional would they hire? Nowadays, people who aspire to climb up the ladder find their reputations under threat just because he/she did something randomly questionable(not harmful; ie:porn, buying sex toys, being a bit politically incorrect etc) online.
Just the fact that we have a literal computer in our pockets almost 24/7 means we will eventually do some questionable stuff online.
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It’s only possible in theory, not realistically. So much data is collected by so many sources and stored so many places all over the world that nobody can simply “erase” all of it. The Facebook post made by some teenager in Iowa may already be stored on servers in China, Russia, and Madagascar. And even if you could, somehow, miraculously track down all the places where that post is, you couldn’t necessarily convince ever single person with access to that post to delete it. In sum, if you put something on the internet, there’s an extremely good chance that it will exist forever, somewhere.
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