Doxxing Safety Part II: Incident Response

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Deeplinks blog has published a guide on responding to doxxing, the deliberate sharing of personal information to harass or intimidate. The post walks through steps like keeping an incident log, assigning trusted team roles, monitoring hate forums privately, and setting up search alerts. It also advises hardening or shutting down affected accounts, revisiting data broker removal, and preparing contingency plans like PACE documents. The guide stresses that preparation and community support are key, and that law enforcement contact may be appropriate in some cases, especially to prevent swatting.

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