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The government wants to criminalise doxing. It may not work to stamp out bad behaviour online

  • Written by Jennifer Beckett, Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the government was seeking to strengthen laws to combat doxing. Its ongoing review into Australian privacy law will now be expanded to include doxing, as will other laws covering hate crime and hate speech.

Doxing (sometimes doxxing) is shorthand for “document drop” and...

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