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  • Home address(es)

  • Workplace details

  • Personal phone numbers

  • Social security numbers

  • Financial information such as bank accounts or credit cards

  • Non-public information regarding sexuality, gender, or gender identity

  • Private health care history or information

  • Private correspondence

  • Criminal history

  • Personal photos

  • Embarrassing private personal details

Swatting

Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as, but not limited to, a:

  • a bomb threat

  • murder

  • hostage situation

  • false report of a mental health emergency, such as reporting that a person is allegedly suicidal or homicidal and may or may not be armed

Brigading

When an orchestrated group of people flood target a story, a specific person or a persons comment in order to influence or damage its reputation. This can be through leaving disparaging comments, or attempting to influence the ratings and scoring of stories, perspectives, comments or user profiles.

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