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The norms for doxing in media are going to have to change. It's a tenet of traditional journalism that everyone in a story must be doxed. A local newspaper wouldn't write a story about someone being burgled without describing them along the lines of Julie West, 53, unmarried, formerly of Westford but now living in Sackville Close, Eastford... I don't know the underlying reasons, I think it derives from principles of reporting truthfully combined with NOT having a principle of not giving personal information. But it seems weird as hell compared to more recent views on privacy an online anonymity.



To me it seems like this is also a very US American thing. In Germany for instance it is common, even for the most tabloid papers to never publish full last names or clear pictures. Most of the time in pictures faces are made blurry etc.


In Germany privacy is a real thing, in the US it's a figment of everyone's imagination.




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