By now, most of us know that our Web browsing history is stored on our own PCs, which comes in handy when we want to track down a cheating spouse or errant teenager but is less useful when we are looking at, shall we say, recreational sites at the workplace. But what we are talking about here has to do with more insidious tracking of your digital footprints as you go about your daily computing workday life. When you start thinking about all the ways that you can be digitally tracked, it can make even the least paranoid person sit up and take notice.

In this article published in today’s Computerworld.com, I talk about some of the ways you can avoid detection.