digital exhaust

noun

Definitions

  1. Information created by a person using the Internet or other digital activities,…

    Information created by a person using the Internet or other digital activities, especially when used for commercial purposes.

    • Even your “digital exhaust”, such as search requests and browsing history, is often recorded by companies who want to target you with personalised advertising.
    • The trusted advisor, with our permission, can simply watch and analyze the “digital exhaust” from our activities to develop deep insight into who we are and what is important to us.
    • Who would dare to redefine “digital exhaust” as booty or contraband, or imagine that Google had learned how to purposefully construct that so-called “exhaust” with its methods, apparatus, and data structures?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for digital exhaust. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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