UPSC Articles
Doxxing
Part of: Prelims and GS-III -Information technology
Context: Meta’s oversight board has suggested Facebook and Instagram to make strict doxxing rules.
- Meta was asked to consider doxxing as an offence which should prompt temporary account suspension.
What is doxxing?
- Doxxing is publishing and analysing others’ personal information on the internet with a malicious intent that can reveal the person’s real identity making them victims of harassments and cyber-attacks.
- The firm highlighted how doxxing is used to shame or punish people who would rather stay anonymous, because of their controversial beliefs or other types of non-mainstream activity.
- Doxxing can result in emotional distress, loss of employment and even physical harm or death.
News Source: TH
