People ask me to dox them on TikTok — and they're shocked by how easy it is for me to find out their secrets
. Kristen's last name has been withheld for privacy reasons, but her identity is known to Insider. Kristen uses her TikTok account to"consensually dox" users and reveal their birthdays using just social media.
And now it's evolved into something wild: People just never stopped commenting,"Hey, try me, try me!" When I made a silly TikTok about how I could find someone's birthday, I didn't expect to become a data-privacy educator or someone who taught people how to lock down their social-media profiles. I was just showing people how creepy I am! But I've turned it into a very helpful tool.
I get a lot of comments that say,"There's no way you can find me because I don't have any information about myself on my TikTok. I don't have my name on there. I don't have any indication of what my birthday is." But what I've shown in a few TikToks is that family members expose people more than anything else.
There are also people telling me that I should go into data privacy or intelligence analysis. I've gotten some offers to do contract work investigating things, like from producers on television shows saying,"Hey, we'd love for you to source this information about people so we can find them for interviews." I've had some charities reach out about doing different things like helping families find each other.
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