Nuked Meta is following the oversight board’s recommendation to remove an exception that allowed users to share a person’s residential address as long as it’s’publicly available’.
Meta’s response comes a year after the company asked the oversight board to weigh in on its handling of private residential information. The board issued a response in February, calling on meta to tighten its policies surrounding the sharing of private addresses over concerns about doxxing.
The meta-owned platforms take no action against posts containing’publicly available addresses’. This means any addresses that have been published in five or more news outlets or have been made available in public records.
The company says it wo n’t take action if’the property depicted is the focus of a news story’. It will also allow users to share the exterior of publicly-owned residencies, like heads of state or ambassadors. Meta says it will continue to let users post their own addresses but wo n’t follow the board’s recommendation to let other users reshare them.
The company says it’s testing a way to make the’privacy violation’ easier to find. Meta says it will test making the option more’prominent’.
The board suggested creating a’specific channel’ to handle reports of doxxing as well, but meta declined to take action. Meta said it already partners with over 850 organizations victims can contact to get help.
Doxxing is the act of revealing a person’s name, phone number, email address, or home address online with the purpose of waging a harassment campaign against them. This also marks the first time meta has responded to the oversight board’s policy advisory opinion.
