Watch a viral TikTok star consensually doxx an NBC journalist

The popular TikTok audio, "Tell me you don't look your age without telling me you don't look your age," has gone viral in another form: 'consensual doxxing.’ Kristen Sotakoun has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers by finding their real names, birthdays, family members and more… all at their request. She joins Andrew Stern to share her best tips and tricks for consensual doxxing as well as show where those weak spots in your digital footprint might be.

The popular TikTok audio, "Tell me you don't look your age without telling me you don't look your age," has gone viral in another form: 'consensual doxxing.’ Kristen Sotakoun has attracted hundreds of thousands of followers by finding their real names, birthdays, family members and more… all at their request. She joins Andrew Stern to share her best tips and tricks for consensual doxxing as well as show where those weak spots in your digital footprint might be.

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[userb]

She is teaching people to be more aware of what people can see and find out about themselves. Good for her.

[cmills]

She's just doing what every level 5 clinger has been doing since the beginning of time!!

[giraffestreet]

After she explained the process, it's actually super easy because everything is already public. Wether I realized it or not that I have shared something personal from how many years ago.

[kernelpickle]

That stuff is super easy. If you want a real challenge, try doxxing the jerks who send those scam text messages. I have and found the guy and where his office was in India, which of course was a shared workspace, and I reported him to his email provider, his ISP and the registrar that provided his domain name and web hosting.

[VesperAegis]

One gigantic nobrainer here is not to link your profiles or have interaction with your parents online, or boomers in general. What a facepalm.

[McGruph]

A woman is good at finding s#!t online ❓️❓️ how original ❗️😂😂

[laughingvampire]

Is incredible how much disregard for privacy and human rights in general do we have.

[SteveSeas]

The key word is "consensual." Investigators use databases for searches when they are not consensual. There is a huge difference.

[ziaride]

I put fake birthdays on my profiles years ago. It's funny to get happy Birthday on some random day lol. People who know you well still wish you happy birthday on the right day though.

[Honeypepper.]

Never use your real name or Real ANYTHING on social media ok

[mijajajaja]

She should be a detective!
Also, I'm glad I don't use TikTok haha

[AGDinCA]

Aside from YouTube comments I try to steer clear of social media. There's just too much info out there by each and ever

[ms_violet_majesty]

This isn’t a new thing this is what skip tracing is and has been happening for a while 😂 however kudos to her for spreading awareness to people

[hipnhappenin]

So it's basically people being more public than they think ...

[adamkondracki]

Never had any social media profiles except Twitter for one week to find a ps5. I doubt these lady could find me

[VgAce]

This is known as OSINT. She is just getting open-source information from searchable sources on the internet.

[MenaceRacecar]

I've helped a few people stop doing that...
People that I thought were smart, respond to the posts that ask "name the city you grew up in"! And... "tell everyone what high school you went to" and "do you remember your first phone number"?? SO DUMB TO GIVE HACKERS YOUR PASSWORD CLUES.

[rickmorty]

There's no way her partner would cheat without her knowing about it.

[Kayodoms]

I’m not even freaked out by this tbh. I already know if someone wants to find me they can. Unless I just go off the grid and live in a van somewhere. I’m not stressing about it.

[misspetersburg]

Now you all see how all these tech companies track us. If it’s easy for her, y’all can only imagine for those who have top tier knowledge and resources.