You're quite right, TRex. The word
doxing seems to have emerged since the original Chi word list was compiled.
Dox - also
doxx - is a respelling of
docs, i.e.
documents. It relates to personal information about somebody, published online with hostile intent. It can be a noun, referring to the information, or a verb, for the act of releasing such information. Hence
doxes,
doxed,
doxing... and
doxxes,
doxxed,
doxxing.
Information revealed might include the person's address, workplace, car number plate, children's school, etc. Usually the purpose of doxing is to intimidate. I think there have been cases where people have been physically attacked in their homes, sometimes fatally. I'm not sure whether the Australian law mentioned by Ozzyjack provides complete protection against doxing.
The word is listed by the online dictionaries from Merriam-Webster and Oxford, both of which note the alternate, double-
X, spelling. Merriam-Webster dates the word to 2009. There are plenty of examples in news reports from recent years. A recent one from Forbes on 9 December:
A black lawmaker in Michigan said Sunday she received phone calls threatening to dox and lynch her after she condemned her Republican colleagues for accommodating Giuliani at a voter fraud hearing.
The double-
X spelling seems to be slightly more common. An example of this, also from 9 December, on the CNET website:
The changes make several aspects of Twitch's current policy clearer and more explicit, banning actions like encouraging people to doxx another user, repeatedly commenting on someone's physical appearance if you've been asked to stop, or displaying the Confederate flag.
I'll add, as rare words,
doxed,
doxes,
doxing,
doxx,
doxxes,
doxxed and
doxxing.
