Managing and reducing your digital footprint

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Quick Questions

Shade in the A or B circle for each question.

1. You want to see what strangers can find about you online. What is a good first step?

A Wait until someone posts something about you

B Search for your own name in a search engine

2. You haven't used an old gaming account for three years. What helps reduce your digital footprint?

A Delete the account

B Leave it open because it is not being used

3. A torch app asks for access to your contacts and location. What is the best choice?

A Deny permissions the app does not need to work

B Allow everything so the app works properly

4. You delete a photo you posted last year. A friend had already saved a copy. Which statement is true?

A The copy your friend saved may still exist

B Deleting it removes every copy everywhere

5. Which action tightens your privacy settings?

A Adding your phone number to your public bio

B Changing your profile from public to friends only

Match the Pairs

Draw a line connecting each item on the left to its match on the right.

Left column		Right column
1search("Your Full Name")		ASearching your name only shows what is there. It does not reduce anything until you delete or hide what you find.
2delete_account("old_game_forum")		Bprivacy.posts = "friends_only"
3Limiting app permissions so an app cannot access your location		CSearching your own name to see what others can find about you online
4Tightening privacy settings so only friends can see your posts		Dpermissions.location = "deny"
5delete_post("photo") print("Gone from everywhere!")		EDeleting a post does not guarantee it is gone everywhere. Others may have saved, screenshotted or shared copies that remain.
6search("Your Full Name") print("Footprint managed!")		FDeleting an old account you no longer use so it stops holding your data

Definitions

digital footprint management

Fill in the Blanks

Complete each line of code by filling in the missing parts.

______("Jess Nguyen photos")

______(account, OldGameSite)

setPermission(location, ___)

setPrivacy(profile, _______)

deletePost(partyPhoto) IF copySaved = true THEN ___________(friend)

Spot the Error

Shade in the letter of the line that contains an error.

Question 1

A name ← "Sam Lee"

B results ← search(name)

C FOR EACH item IN name

D PRINT item

Question 2

A lastLogin ← 4

B IF lastLogin < 3 THEN

C deleteAccount()

D END IF

Question 3

A permission ← location

B IF appNeedsIt = FALSE THEN

C turnOff(permission)

Question 4

A FOR EACH app IN apps

B needs ← app.needsMic

C IF needs = TRUE THEN

D revoke(app, "microphone")

Question 5

A profile.visibility ← "friends"

B profile.shareLocation ← TRUE

C profile.tagReview ← TRUE

Answer Key

Managing and reducing your digital footprint

Section A: Quick Questions

B — Search for your own name in a search engine

A — Delete the account

A — Deny permissions the app does not need to work

A — The copy your friend saved may still exist

B — Changing your profile from public to friends only

Section B: Match the Pairs

search("Your Full Name") → Searching your own name to see what others can find about you online

delete_account("old_game_forum") → Deleting an old account you no longer use so it stops holding your data

Limiting app permissions so an app cannot access your location → permissions.location = "deny"

Tightening privacy settings so only friends can see your posts → privacy.posts = "friends_only"

delete_post("photo") print("Gone from everywhere!") → Deleting a post does not guarantee it is gone everywhere. Others may have saved, screenshotted or shared copies that remain.

search("Your Full Name") print("Footprint managed!") → Searching your name only shows what is there. It does not reduce anything until you delete or hide what you find.

Section C: Definitions

digital footprint management — Searching your own name, deleting old accounts and posts, tightening privacy settings and limiting app permissions to shrink your footprint, though copies others made may remain.

Section D: Fill in the Blanks

search("Jess Nguyen photos")

delete(account, OldGameSite)

setPermission(location, off)

setPrivacy(profile, private)

deletePost(partyPhoto)
IF copySaved = true THEN
  askToRemove(friend)

Section E: Spot the Error

C — The loop should go through the search results, not the name. Searching your own name gives you a list of results to review, so it should be FOR EACH item IN results.

B — The test is the wrong way round. It would delete accounts that were used recently. Only accounts unused for more than 3 years should be deleted, so it should be IF lastLogin > 3 THEN.

A — The text "location" needs quotation marks. Without them the computer looks for a variable called location that doesn't exist. It should be permission ← "location".

C — This would take the microphone permission away from apps that need it. Limiting permissions means revoking access only when the app does not need it, so it should be IF needs = FALSE THEN.

B — Tightening privacy settings means switching location sharing off. Setting it to TRUE shares more data. It should be profile.shareLocation ← FALSE.