Man, if people get outraged when someone releases one person’s address and contact info to the public, wait until they learn about the fucking phone book.
Internet Magic!
Are celebrities’ addresses and contact info still private nowadays? I remember when getting a celebrity’s number or address (consensually or not) was a TV Trope, but I haven’t seen or heard of it in like tenish years, nor have I explicitly heard of it no longer being a thing.
Edit: also the thing about dozxxing is mostly just the coordination aspect, plus removal of trivial inconveniences.
The phone book all along gave you the option to conceal your information as an “unlisted number” (for a monthly fee), I know in particular Rebecca Schaeffer murder inspired state governments to cut off public access to DMV records in the 1990s and make some threatening growls towards private investigators
(Which since the PI industry is watching and lobbying the relevant regulatory apparatuses all the time and not just when momentarily inspired by some news hook, amounted to nothing much, though it does give me an excuse to mention the California private security licensing training I saw once which was like
You’re not cops!
Really!
Or Batman!
Really guarding is about watching over things and taking notes!
Maybe talking assertively, but remember you’re not cops!
Also here is this 1 hour-long addendum from 2002 on how to fight nuclear, biological, and chemical terrorism
)
Aaaaaaaaanyway, MY favorite way to track down super sekrit celebrity addresses is to look them up in the public FEC filings if they’ve made political donations
