[Xelynega]

No, it's not like doxxing. Doxxing is when you find someone private details and publish them publicly.

This account took public information from flight tracking information and published it publicly.

That's why it's not the same as publishing the home address of a journalists who is a woman of colour.

[throwawayacc3]

>No, it's not like doxxing. Doxxing is when you find someone private details and publish them publicly.

That isn't true.

>This account took public information from flight tracking information and published it publicly...That's why it's not the same as publishing the home address of a journalists

Home addresses and the property owner's information are publicly available, typically from the county. This is not considered "private" information in the US, unfortunately.

>who is a woman of colour.

Stop being a racist/sexist. Reddit is that way. You can have all the racist/sexist fetishization parties you want over there. Get this garbage off HN.

[Xelynega]

Lol.

1) ok than what is the difference between doxxing and sending my friend an address on Google. According to you the public availability of the information isn't the difference, so I'm curious where it is or if you consider that case "doxxing" as well.

2) The public mapping is the opposite of what your imagining. There's a public map of "addresses"->"names" for houses but that's irrelevant because we're talking about getting the home address for a given person.

3) I'm literally responding to a comment that used that example so I don't know why it set you off here.

[throwawayacc3]

>ok than what is the difference between doxxing and sending my friend an address on Google.

"What's the difference between a public post and a private message?"

>According to you the public availability of the information isn't the difference, so I'm curious where it is or if you consider that case "doxxing" as well.

It's almost like words have meaning and definitions: "Doxxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the internet." [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

>The public mapping is the opposite of what your imagining. There's a public map of "addresses"->"names" for houses but that's irrelevant because we're talking about getting the home address for a given person.

This is wrong. You can search by last name in county CADs to get property addresses. As in, you can go "names"->"addresses" as well. Property ownership is public information.

>I'm literally responding to a comment that used that example so I don't know why it set you off here.

You literally didn't know the definition of doxxing.