What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride

Not too long ago it seemed like doxing was considered taboo, but it's made a resurgence and I don't see many folks shunning the practice. Hopefully the right to privacy can return to being a value we hold as a society again.

Unfortunately, this has become a weird pattern on twitter. Someone asks for help to identify someone, people put up suspects, and the mob decides if one person said they did it, they must have done it.

Twitter is, literally, a cesspool of mob outrage, where people feel empowered to ruin people's lives as long as they believe you did something wrong.

And it seems twitter doesn't care. I mean, doxing is supposed to be against the terms of service, so why wasn't that person perma-banned? Why weren't the people sending this person hate banned or at least given a short ban? Maybe some were, but this is a pattern that happens on twitter, obvious threats and other banable offences go ignored.

I know this can happen on other networks, but something about twitter has lead to it being the most vile of the social media sites. My guess is that it's not because of any ill intent, but just that they are wholly incompetent.

"To his surprise, the app that he used to record his regular rides ... shared that information publicly, not just with his network of friends and followers. Someone had located a record of his ride on the path on June 2..."

This makes it sound like the app (Strava) leaked his private info. It can very well be one of his followers leaked it?

Interesting it doesn’t appear to name the biking app that lead to the disclosure... I suppose it’s not hard to guess. I’d bet the public activity feeds will vanish entirely from most apps within the next few years.