Doxxing: A Cybercrime That Violates Data Privacy and Protection
Imagine your home address, phone number, or even sensitive financial details plastered across the internet for everyone to see. This act is called doxxing. What is doxxing? Although, the word doxxing is not specifically mentioned in Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015. But for the purpose of this Article, the definition used by Sen Nguyen, a CNN journalist will be adopted. The definition of doxxing according to the International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication, which was cited in one of their articles (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/07/world/what-is-doxxing-explainer-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html) doxxing is the intentional revelation of a person’s private information online without their consent, often with malicious intent. This includes the sharing of phone numbers, home addresses, identification numbers and essentially any sensitive and previously private information such as personal photos that could make the...