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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

Sharing someone’s personal info online may soon mean jail time. How will Australia’s proposed doxing laws work?

Attorney General Mark Dreyfus
The proposed doxing legislation introduced by attorney general Mark Dreyfus includes jail terms of up to six years for the basic offence. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Long-awaited reform to Australia’s privacy legislation would criminalise so-called doxing with lengthy jail terms on the table, according to a new bill introduced in parliament on Thursday by the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus.

Dreyfus said the new legislation was a response to “a recent, shocking incident of a group who were targeted with doxing on the basis of their religion”.

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