My manager pointed out this to me shortly after the video blew up. As soon as he saw the video he suspected something was up but it took him less than half an hour after work that day to track down a shocking amount of information about the people involved and conclude it was a fake. He's absolutely sure it was fake top to bottom because Mark Rober would have to have seen and edit out evidence of fakery in the original video.
Impressive amounts of skill and creativity that went into something 100% trivial.
Impressive amounts of desire to do something meaningful, anything, no matter what, as long as it feels meaningful, that drives people to even begin digging into stuff like this.
I guess that means the leisure society is a lot closer than I thought?
Sounds like you're projecting your own imagination onto an otherwise possible situation that can happen every day.
Why do you think privacy is such a big issue? It's not just about companies tracking you and serving you ads, it's about shit like this. If you're not careful/aware about what you put online, don't be surprised when it comes back to bite you in the ass.
Doxxing the guilty is still doxxing. Doxxing, then taking the information down is still doxxing. Until there is a trial, people still have their civil rights. Private individuals and the legislative and executive parts of our government have no business taking away people's civil rights. That's what the Civil Rights movement was about in the first place!
Taking away someone's civil rights through a trial by social media is even worse than any legacy "trial by media."
Obviously it's not pleasant to have your public information shared like this, and I'm not saying that it should have happened, I just don't understand what you're trying to say.
By those standards, the people were doxed by the original Mark Rober video. The street number of the woman's house was visible on the trashcan, that with the name of the trash vendor (also visible on the trashcan) were enough to find the address.
That imgur album was shared by a reporter, Matt Novak from Gizmodo. It is private and was not widely shared until he decided to post it in his reporting.
If you want to be mad at anyone for doxing, look to Mark Rober for being sloppy in his editing and Matt Novak for posting a link to that private gallery.
Also pretty impressed people have that much time on their hands (as I say posting some random comment into the ether).