The Facebook post above illustrates how many law enforcement families feel right now. Current chaos in this country magnifies the danger they face every day to enforce the rule of law in America. It’s critical that our personal information not be available to anyone who wants to make their point (whatever it is) in person at our homes.
Headlines are full of crazy and motivated people who accost, protest, or attack law enforcement, service members, attorneys, and judges at their homes. In Atlanta, this story shows that some criminals will terrorize neighborhoods to make their point. Protesters arrested who tracked police home.
Maybe more terrifying, we can be caught up in situations without doing anything at all! I live in DC and this news article prompted lots of discussion in our neighborhood FB group. A mob of Twitter detectives falsely accused at least two men of attacking people on a hiking/cycling trail in Bethesda, MD. These people used a photo of the man and searched profile pictures in the local online cycling groups and STRAVA. I watched this happen in real time. Once they had a handful of men identified, they googled their names and began calling their homes and in the case of the man in the article, his elderly mother! Time to loose the lawyers!
Before it is too late, please, right now start the process of removing yourself and your family from the internet. Change your social media profiles to anything other than your real identity. Ask your friends and family to do the same. Remove your personally identifiable information from all data websites. Stop sharing that information from today forward. Even if you are not in a public position that puts you at risk, you may inadvertently find yourself in the media spotlight, a court case, or other situation where you become someone’s *target*. Do it for you and for your children.
Now Hide Me 