FixablePlatforms & social life
Doxxing & harassment
Your private details published to intimidate, or to endanger you.
Understand it
Doxxing is the gathering and publishing of your personal information - home address, phone, family - to harass, threaten or enable harm in the real world. Public figures and outspoken individuals are frequent targets, often of coordinated groups.
How to spot it
Your details surfacing on forums, a sudden surge of hostile contact, or strangers referring to where you live.
Close the gap
- Remove your address and phone from public records and data-broker sites.
- Lock down social accounts; keep public and private identities apart.
- Keep location data out of posts and photographs.
- Report threats to the police, keep the evidence, and tell those around you.
What to do about it
This is part of your plan at the High-risk level - Compartmentalise your identities. Work through it there and you’ll close this off along with everything else it covers.