Facebook gets warning from Oversight board to upgrade security and protect users from 'Doxing'

The independent Oversight Board has told Meta to create a communications channel for victims of 'doxing', give users more control over how they consent to share their private residential information and provide data showing the amount of content removed following privacy-related government requests. The Oversight Board, constituted by Facebook with 20 members from across the world, issued its first policy opinion late on Tuesday, asking Facebook and Instagram to improve their policies to protect users against doxing. Last year, Meta requested a policy advisory opinion from the Board on the sharing of private residential addresses and images, and the contexts in which this information may be published on Facebook and Instagram. "As such, the Board favours narrowing the exceptions to the Privacy Violations policy to help Meta better protect the private residential information of people both on and off its platforms".