The term digital exhaust or exhaust data has several meanings but can be defined through the following: * The output of human beings using the internet. * The "aggregation of data through the digitization of processes and activities" in the commercial sector which generates metadata supporting corporate profit generation. * The production of vast amounts of information in binary code, represented as words, texts, videos, photos and other mediums, expressed on computers and websites, and distributed across the internet. :Jerry Michalski, a consultant, calls the mini-feed a “data exhaust” that gives Facebook users “better peripheral vision” into the lives of people they know only casually.
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