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This is from the article: “Anyone who discloses the personal data of another person without consent, whether recklessly or with intent to cause specified harm
by 1cvmask 5y ago
This is from the article:
“Anyone who discloses the personal data of another person without consent, whether recklessly or with intent to cause specified harm to the person or his or her family, such as harassment, molestation, pestering, threat, intimidation, bodily or psychological harm or damage to property, commits the offence of doxxing,” said the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), the domestic data protection regulator.
The harshest penalties are imposed if victims suffer harassment, intimidation, physical or psychological harm, damage to their property, or a threat to their safety or wellbeing.
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It seems that China, Hong Kong and South Korea have explicit doxxing laws whereas other countries like the US have implicit or selectively applied laws:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
In the United States, there are currently two federal laws that could potentially address the problem of doxing: the Interstate Communications Statute and the Interstate Stalking Statute.[56] However, as one scholar has argued, "[t]hese statutes...are woefully inadequate to prevent doxing because their terms are underinclusive and they are rarely enforced".[56] The Interstate Communications Statute, for example, "only criminalizes explicit threats to kidnap or injure a person".[57] But in many instances of doxing, a doxer may never convey an explicit threat to kidnap or injure, but the victim could still have good reason to be terrified.[57] And the Interstate Stalking Statute "is rarely enforced and it serves only as a hollow protection from online harassment".[58] To illustrate, over three million people are stalked over the internet each year, yet only three people are charged under the Interstate Stalking Statute.[58] Accordingly, "[t]his lack of federal enforcement means that the States must step in if doxing is to be reduced".