5 places to look for your digital footprint
It should come as no surprise that search engines are the biggest culprits when it comes to keeping track of users' data. Companies such as Google and Yahoo have a vested interest in keeping as much information about you on file as they can. But how long does your preferred search engine remember your queries?
Popular search engines all store your data in similar ways, but they do so for different amounts of time. All of them keep alog of your sessions on their servers. These logs include your search terms, IPaddress and other session data, such as date and time. After a certain period of time, the companies "anonymize" these logs to varying degrees,with some fully deleting factors that could be used to identify specific users,like their IP addresses, and some keeping that information indefinitely.
The 5 most important places are:
a. Web Browsers
b. ISP’s
c. Cellphone companies
d. Your mobile device
e. Search engines
