Facebook should guard against revealing private addresses, board recommends

Oversight Board of Meta recommends exception to privacy rules should be removed

Facebook and Instagram should tighten privacy rules to protect against the revealing of private residential addresses and images online, known as doxxing, according to the independent body that decides if content should be on the social media platforms.

The Oversight Board of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has recommended that an exception to the company's privacy rules that allows the sharing of private residential information when it is considered publicly available" should be removed.