# X (Twitter) Now Shows Your Account's Country/Region

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/x-twitter-now-shows-your-accounts-country-region/33344
**Category:** News
**Created:** 2025-11-26T22:49:21Z
**Posts:** 37
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## Post 15 by @anon92357554 — 2025-11-25T23:25:40Z

> [@X Now Shows the Regions Where Accounts Are Based. Anything we can do?](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/x-now-shows-the-regions-where-accounts-are-based-anything-we-can-do/33279/16):
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> Only the country is made public, but it is still doxing. If what X/Twitter is doing is not doxing, how do you define doxing?

From wikipedia

> Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly providing **personally identifiable information** about an individual or organization, usually via the [Internet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet) and without their consent.

Also, on the off chance you are someone who thinks wikipedia is biased:

> Doxing, also spelled doxxing, is the act of publicly disclosing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization without consent, typically via the internet, with the intent to harass, intimidate, expose, or otherwise harm the target.

> **[Doxing](https://grokipedia.com/page/Doxing)**
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> Doxing, also spelled doxxing, is the act of publicly disclosing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization without consent, typically via the internet, with the intent to harass, intimidate, expose, or otherwise harm the...

Country is not PII unless it is combined w/ other personally identifiable information. Second, the intent is not present because most of the exposed account have similar political leanings as Elon Musk

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