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Lemmy users dox a random person for fun (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 week ago by dragonfucker@lemmy.nz to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca
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A meme was posted to c/memes@lemmy.world with a partial picture of a driver's licence. The Lemmy users in the comments proceeded to post all the identifying information they could get from the license, including gender, date of birth, and zip code of the person's home. The meme is probably reposted and so this isn't doxxing the Lemmy OP, but that's what the users in the comments seem to think they're doing.

Collecting and disseminating someone's personal information is doxxing even if that information could be found anyway with enough time and knowledge.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 6 days ago

This is sort of a bad take. I get your point, but just because someone posts a little bit of information about themselves doesn't give you free reign to get all associated information and dump it.

For example, the owner of properties is public information. If you knew someone's name, you could reasonably find their address, or at least narrow it down a ton. That doesn't make it okay to post someone's address because they shared their name.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

just because someone posts a little bit of information about themselves doesn't give you free reign to get all associated information and dump it

I get where you're coming from. And you're right - the ideal scenario would be some polite private messages telling the poster to take their stuff down.

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