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IMO, people who own and regularly fly in private jets are definitely worthy of the scrutiny -- not to mention the flight tracking data is public information.

That said, to me it's redundant: social platforms owned by publicly-traded corporations are probably not worth enriching with your free content anyways. Every login, every post, every "favorite"/"like" is literally growing their profits.

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The tyranny of the majority. Doxing "me" should of course be illegal but for certain groups of "others", it's just fine.

Don't like it? Fly commercial.

Neighbor sets up a camera pointing at your driveway that posts to socials whenever you come and go.

Don't like it? Don't own a house or car.

Unfortunately, that's an accurate description of how little privacy the vast majority of us have.

It's extraordinarily easy to be not-famous. I don't have any sympathy for people who deliberately court wealth and fame and then whine about the minor drawbacks that come along with them.

Rules for thee but not for me.

Zuck sure likes vacuuming up and aggregating everybody else's information but gets cranky when someone starts doing the same to him.

Others make billions selling every detail about your life. At the very least it's hypocritical.

Doxxing is when someone aggregates publicly available information, I see.

Actually, yes, it is. Not trying to say anything on the topic of doxxing billionaires vs. doxxing a member of the masses but, as a member of said masses, I understand that my social security number, home address, name, and date of birth, to name a few, are publicly available information. Aggregating that information on some forum is literally what people call doxxing.

I'd argue that doxxing is when that data is linked to lcnPylGDnU4H9OF. It's different when the identity data is compiled but no associated with "identify this person" (whether real world like a video or semi-anonymous virtual identities)

Yes, that's pretty much the definition of doxxing. And then publishing it in a public forum for everyone to see.

What did you think it was? Anything else would typically be illegal illegal.

Pretty much anyone's (in the US at least) information is relatively public. This includes addresses, phone numbers, real estate transactions, criminal records, and far more. Most things people think of as private simply are not.

Hence why doxxing is against ToS for most platforms.

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