What is doxing?

[Doxing] is the Internet-based practice of researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual.

From Wikipedia.

Post in the meta board for more high level discussion.

Think this is more a meta question than a Off topic question,you are bound to get some what trolled or flamed and it will alter the outcome.
Almost like phone surveys where only lonely people answer the phone to be surveyed.

For me the dox issues seems very invasive into ones private affairs,this being the internet I would want to have a little more of a wall between me and real life.
I choose not to be on facebook for that reason and I am sure others come at this with the same thinking. This is bitcoin after all!

Recall a time when I was a punk teenager and the police where coming around the house way to often to pretty much get in my kitchen.
Could see the toll it was taking on my mother and one night they came and took me for a ride and kicked the shit out of me and told me I could
leave town or they would trump up some charges against me. They did trump up some charges but fortunately for me I had moved on. It actually was a life changing moment but I will never forget how my mother looked when she saw me and it hit home that I was up to no good.
So I imagine if some one was to dox me she is that much older and it would most likely kill her. Thats my life and you have to think some of us have parents that are fragile as well and you are not just attacking the target you are attacking the whole family. Their co-workers come across the details and its out there for ever.
If I can not wear what I am dealing out to people,I rather not bark up that tree. Lifes to damn short and we need to think more broader when we think we are just hitting one target.

I think it should only get deleted but if somebodies actually being really persistent and trying to call for violence against an individual then that's probably the one case where I would consider a banning to be okay, people have a right to privacy, even if some people do behave like total scum.

So how do you propose to resolve situations such as Josh Zerlan using private information in their customer database to dox me, and then blatantly lying about it being public information.

A vendor. Now the subject of an FTC lawsuit. Doxing an upset customer.

Theymos shrugs.

Disclosure: Didn't vote in this poll.

nope.
unless it contains explicit threats, else it must not be banned to prevent admin abuse (admin self-banning disaster).

i voted yes.
a dox should be made by law enforcement and not by forum users.

I would vote Yes. But then again who cares what we say man!

If you see something on the forum which you think is wrong but is allowed, learn to look away..

ps: didn't vote.

I quintuple-dog-dare you to post his dox, that are easily obtainable via Google, and see what happens.

I particularly don't like anyone doxing anyone so I voted yes, but shouldn't this topic be discussed in meta?

I've already proven that to be false, and the other thread has more than vehemently proven that admins will delete or shield their own doxes but not those of others, while maintaining the viewpoint that they do. pNote I say "admins" in the general context that we don't know who, or one or many, or some conspiracy or none at all. Don't go witch-hunting.]