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doxing

Gathering and publicly posting the personal information of an internet user online. The term comes from the word "documents", as in "to post personal documents".

Internet users who earn the wrath of an online community frequently find themselves being doxed and having their private lives ruined from the resulting harassment. It is especially common in China where it is called a "flesh search".

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