The Digital You: Never Forgotten

They say nothing on the internet ever really disappears. That’s not poetic. It’s literal.

Every search, every photo you scroll past, every second your camera stays open

— it all gets copied. Not stored, copied. The average person leaves behind 3

terabytes of behavioral data every year — enough to rebuild a digital version of you,

click by click. You think you’re deleting your history, but your internet provider still has

it. Your phone’s keyboard app keeps a record of every word you’ve ever typed.

Even your smart TV reports what you pause on, for how long, and who else is

in the room when it happens. In 2019, a university lab in Zurich proved