Digital exhaust

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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