S/O: Doxxing - could you get 'doxxed'?

[tvguy]

Retired 5 years ago. My personal website is gone and I can't find any remnants of it. But I am sure there are archived remnants 'out there'. I have no other online presence other than here on the DIS, so what can be derived from here is it. I think. I'll go 10-20%.

Try searching archive.org It may be there still.

 

[tvguy]

Your local library probably has a subscription that you can log in for free.

Also Canadians privacy laws are way stronger than the US. You could never find anyone's mortgage or who owns property. That's not searchable. Also birth, marriage, and death records are not published (Varies by the province) for several decades past the event.

Yes Canada is a pain for ancestry searches. Wonder how the property records can stay private. There are times that someone would have a legitimate and legal need to get that information.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I think those that have known me from the beginning (and other places) may be able to find me. And I think I can 'find' some others too.

I've 'known you' for 24 years now and do not think I could find the 'real you'. Going way back, I recall you and your daughter. And as a bit of a 'toughie' back in those early days here. But good. Don't think I could find you.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Yes Canada is a pain for ancestry searches. Wonder how the property records can stay private. There are times that someone would have a legitimate and legal need to get that information.

I assume lawyers can get that information if required. The public cannot.

Doesn’t your lack of privacy of public records concern you?

 

[tvguy]

I assume lawyers can get that information if required. The public cannot.

Doesn’t your lack of privacy of public records concern you?

Well, some who know me, think of me as a privacy nut, actually, for one simple reason. My landline is unlisted, and my cell phone number blocked. All you see if I call is "RESTRICTED" "BLOCKED" "PRIVATE NUMBER" "UNKNOWN", depending on which term the phone provider of the person I am calling uses. And it is getting VERY tough these days to have a blocked number, as some people don't answer blocked numbers, or their system is based on having all your information come up when you call. Our favorite pizza place has to take a couple extra steps to take information to take your order if your number does not come up. And my barber depends on that id coming up.
I don't understand how someone who is concerned about privacy can be revealing their number every time, they make a call.
To more directly answer your question, I don't know any other way of life. My address, what I paid for my house, if I have a mortgage, what my property taxes are, if I am registered to vote being public knowledge has had little impact on my life that I am aware of.
HOWEVER, my employer signed up with the information service Lexus-Nexus and we did a training session with one of their people. She wanted one of us to volunteer to be the subject of a records search so she used me. She was shocked at how little information their data base had about me. Good thing this was a training session. not a sales presentations, because their files on me were pretty lacking.

 

[barkley]

Retired 5 years ago. My personal website is gone and I can't find any remnants of it. But I am sure there are archived remnants 'out there'. I have no other online presence other than here on the DIS, so what can be derived from here is it. I think. I'll go 10-20%.

my oldest in college had a job in the university library-for 4 years digitizing all the existing and new arrivals to the archives. a routine practice was digitaly archiving all of the decades upon decades of regional newspapers. I never gave it much thought as to who would be interested in looking through this stuff but i've noticed a wealth of old newspaper articles complete with photos posted in different (often entirely public) facebook groups. high school events/awards, fraternal organization,'ladies' groups, buisnesses announcing (with photos) their new staff appointments/employees of the month....then there's the websites that reproduce and sell old high school and college yearbooks full of photos I see someones have scanned and put up on their facebooks to elicit discussions of 'the old days', even my former civil service employer has taken at some point in the many years since I left to to publicly posting some kind of quarterly newsletter that has photos, names and office locations of featured staff members. I no very little about technology but I have to wonder if some of the facial reccognition software out there does'nt avail itself of this wealth of free publicly available material.

I don't know about 'doxxing' but I've always found that the greatest wealth of information on people is often found in the obits. they never fail to list predeceased as well as surviving parents, siblings, spouses, children (and their spouses/partners so you can get a married name as well), grandkids (and spouses/partners)...find the obit for the parent of the long lost friend you seek and that obit will tell you names/maiden names/married names/frequently a line about 'retired in xxxx to xyz to be closer to the grandchildren' so you have a geographical point of reference (if they don't come right out and say the location of the passing).

 

[Pink Partridge]

I don't know about 'doxxing' but I've always found that the greatest wealth of information on people is often found in the obits.

YES!

 

[ClaraOswald]

Oh...so who have you tried to doxx? Do tell!

I'll never tell.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Probably wouldn't be that hard to doxx me, however I don't really have anything that interesting about me, so people would be pretty bored

 

[china mom]

I follow a content creator on tik tock - Kahn who does consensual doxxing. You ask her to figure out your birthday and you only provide your user name and she shows you how she figures it out. It is crazy how fast she find people's information.

@notkahnjunior

 

[sam_gordon]

Very easily. I've dropped enough bread crumbs here (but not much anywhere else) it would be easy for someone to find me. However, unless your search finds the breadcrumbs in Disboards, I doubt the search would be successful.

 

[tvguy]

My wife and I were talking about this thread, and she pointed out my "privacy" was violated within a few days of my birth 68 years ago. The newspaper "Vital Statistics" column listed my date of birth, name, parents name and address. Birth and marriage records are all public information in the U.S. .
Someone scanned my Little League book from 1968 with name, address and phone number. And my High School Alumni Association has a list of every graduate, their last known address and phone number, and someone has updated it with e-mail addresses and work phone number. The first cruise my wife and I took in 1983 , we were given a passsenger list with everyone's name address and phone number.

 

[CdnCarrie]

My wife and I were talking about this thread, and she pointed out my "privacy" was violated within a few days of my birth 68 years ago. The newspaper "Vital Statistics" column listed my date of birth, name, parents name and address. Birth and marriage records are all public information in the U.S. .
Someone scanned my Little League book from 1968 with name, address and phone number. And my High School Alumni Association has a list of every graduate, their last known address and phone number, and someone has updated it with e-mail addresses and work phone number. The first cruise my wife and I took in 1983 , we were given a passsenger list with everyone's name address and phone number.

So glad that doesn't happen in Canada. Yikes!

 

[ClaraOswald]

So glad that doesn't happen in Canada. Yikes!

Thankfully, I don't think it happens here anymore either.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Thankfully, I don't think it happens here anymore either.

I have seen old local newspaper articles and they give people's addresses! Can you imagine them doing that now.

 

[ClaraOswald]

I guess they don't even really need to since people's addresses are so easily googled if you have their name and a city.

Growing up, we just got everyone's addresses from the White Pages.

 

[CdnCarrie]

I guess they don't even really need to since people's addresses are so easily googled if you have their name and a city.

Growing up, we just got everyone's addresses from the White Pages.

Not in Canada unless you had a listed home phone. Property records don't indicate who owns it. That's my point.

 

[tvguy]

Thankfully, I don't think it happens here anymore either.

Not a lot of newspapers left, but most still do print Vital Statistics such as births.

 

[barkley]

Thankfully, I don't think it happens here anymore either.

it still happens here-according to the website for our large regional newspaper:

"... publishes the following: Washington official records; Washington birth records; Idaho building permits; Government Almanac."

out of curiosity I looked up today's and there were the full legal names of those that applied for marriage licenses along with whatever city or town is currently that of their individual legal addressess.

 

[tvguy]

it still happens here-according to the website for our large regional newspaper:

"... publishes the following: Washington official records; Washington birth records; Idaho building permits; Government Almanac."

out of curiosity I looked up today's and there were the full legal names of those that applied for marriage licenses along with whatever city or town is currently that of their individual legal addressess.

Yeah, that is what I thought. And once a year here they print the names, and address of people who are behind on their property taxes, complete with the amount they owe. But I think the law requires that to be published before the county can put a lien on the property for unpaid taxes. I guess one person's violation of privacy is another persons legal transparency.