Criminal Regulation of Online 'Doxing' Conduct: Practical Dilemmas and Paths for Improvement

With the rapid development of the internet and social media, online 'doxing' has evolved into a composite cybercrime that integrates human-flesh search, unlawful data scraping, trafficking in private data, and sustained cyber violence, displaying technical, organized, and industrialized features. It seriously infringes on citizens' rights to personal information and privacy, undermines online public order, and may even trigger extreme incidents. At present, criminal-law regulation of online doxing faces practical difficulties such as challenges in determining overlapping offenses, blurred boundaries of platform responsibility, and weak administrative–criminal enforcement coordination. This article clarifies the legal attributes of online doxing and the types of offenses involved, analyzes core difficulties in criminal regulation, and proposes targeted paths for improvement, from the dimensions of criminal-law application, platform liability, and the administrative–criminal interface. It aims to provide a theoretical reference for accurately punishing doxing-related crime, improving whole-chain governance, and fostering a clean, orderly cyberspace governance system.