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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You could easily set up a firm and advertise yourself as a “professional digital footprint eraser”. You could delete someone’s Facebook account for them, delete their Twitter account for them, etc. You could take any pictures of them that’re online, do a Google Image Search to see if those photos exist anywhere else, then contact those places and ask them to remove the photos. Stuff like that – basically nothing special, just plain ol’ drudge work that anyone could do themselves if they wanted to spend the time doing it.
Then apart from all of that, here’s the reality: anything that has ever existed on the internet *might* have been copied, anywhere, an infinite number of times. It is completely impossible to find everything with 100% certainty.
You could easily set up a firm and advertise yourself as a “professional digital footprint eraser”. You could delete someone’s Facebook account for them, delete their Twitter account for them, etc. You could take any pictures of them that’re online, do a Google Image Search to see if those photos exist anywhere else, then contact those places and ask them to remove the photos. Stuff like that – basically nothing special, just plain ol’ drudge work that anyone could do themselves if they wanted to spend the time doing it.
Then apart from all of that, here’s the reality: anything that has ever existed on the internet *might* have been copied, anywhere, an infinite number of times. It is completely impossible to find everything with 100% certainty.
You could easily set up a firm and advertise yourself as a “professional digital footprint eraser”. You could delete someone’s Facebook account for them, delete their Twitter account for them, etc. You could take any pictures of them that’re online, do a Google Image Search to see if those photos exist anywhere else, then contact those places and ask them to remove the photos. Stuff like that – basically nothing special, just plain ol’ drudge work that anyone could do themselves if they wanted to spend the time doing it.
Then apart from all of that, here’s the reality: anything that has ever existed on the internet *might* have been copied, anywhere, an infinite number of times. It is completely impossible to find everything with 100% certainty.
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