Sharing someone’s personal info online may soon mean jail time. How will Australia’s proposed doxing laws work?
Legislation says doxing would need to be done in a menacing and harassing way to be considered an offence
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Long-awaited reform to Australia’s privacy legislation would criminalise so-called doxing with lengthy jail terms on the table, according to a new bill introduced in parliament on Thursday by the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus.
Dreyfus said the new legislation was a response to “a recent, shocking incident of a group who were targeted with doxing on the basis of their religion”.
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