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Doxxing Safety Part II: Incident Response

Doxxing, also known as the deliberate sharing of personal information to harass or endanger someone, is a tricky thing to protect against. It often happens by some ill-intentioned person accessing publicly available information, then sharing that information more widely in the hopes it will intimidate their target or worse. This guide is a followup from a previous post that describes a methodology for you to clean up your digital footprint and get a firm entry into the art of open source intelligence. There's a slight bit of repetition here, but with a slant towards using those now-familiar t…

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Doxxing Safety Pt I: Prevention and Footprint Management

Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk doing it is often able to use legal and accessible means to do so. The odds are stacked against everyday internet folk when there's little to no comprehensive data privacy legislation keeping us safe. The responsibility is on each of us to protect ourselves, but the good news is that there's a lot you can do to reduce your digital footprint and take control of your data. This post is part one of…

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Iceland to seek new security partnerships after voters reject EU accession talks

Iceland to seek new security partnerships after voters reject EU accession talks Reuters

Australia publishes initial proposals for second wave of Privacy Act reforms

Australia has released early proposals for a second round of reforms to its Privacy Act, signaling that the government intends to continue updating the country's core privacy framework beyond its initial round of changes.

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Meloni's big reforms flounder but security bills flourish in Italy

Meloni's big reforms flounder but security bills flourish in Italy Reuters

Watch Ashton Kutcher brag about his 'terrifying' facial-recognition app on 'Hot Ones'

Watch Ashton Kutcher brag about his 'terrifying' facial-recognition app on 'Hot Ones' Mashable