In the age of the social web, we live out much of our lives online: we share our birthday parties and photos on Facebook, our political views and opinions on news stories on Twitter, photos of our cappuccinos and holiday snaps on Instagram, our wedding mood boards and home DIY plans on Pinterest, and career changes on Linkedin.
But what happens if you want to erase some of your digital past, or change some things that were public (jobs, crazy partying, an ex) to private? The question of Internet privacy is a controversial one. Last week the European Union’s top court ruled that data about individuals held by Google must be deleted on request. The ruling underlines the battle between proponents of free expression and people who support privacy rights who believe that people should have the right to delete themselves off the Internet.
If you do ever need to delete digital traces of yourself, it’s not that easy, but this helpful infographic gives you step-by-step instructions on how to do it.
