A meme was posted to c/memes@lemmy.world with a partial picture of a driver’s licence. The Lemmy users in the comments proceeded to post all the identifying information they could get from the license, including gender, date of birth, and zip code of the person’s home. The meme is probably reposted and so this isn’t doxxing the Lemmy OP, but that’s what the users in the comments seem to think they’re doing.

Collecting and disseminating someone’s personal information is doxxing even if that information could be found anyway with enough time and knowledge.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    if Lemmings weren’t going to do it, someone else would have.

    This argument falls flat because if nobody does it, then nobody does it. It’s not okay to do something wrong just because you believe it’s likely someone else will later.

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
      1·
      5 days ago

      Yeah I’ll admit it’s a shitty argument. Personally it’s more that I do think it is wrong to post other people’s IDs, but I don’t think it’s wrong to explain what the clearly visible numbers of a document mean, it’s not hidden information like EXIF data or other things that require a lot of sleuthing.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      21·
      5 days ago

      It’s okay to do something wrong just because you believe it’s likely someone else will later.

      Capitalism 101