A plan to give Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data the power to conduct criminal investigations into "doxing," launch prosecutions, remove doxing content from social media, and require platforms to turn over names and IP addresses of doxers has received support from legal experts, the South China Morning Post reports. Lawyers and scholars called for safeguards to allow for fair criticism and scrutiny of public officials. "If a law can be tailored so that it only catches genuinely harmful (doxing) behaviour, then in principle it is something to support," Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Associate Professor Stuart Hargreaves said.
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