Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the Doxing Recourse Victims Act into law. Assemblyman Chris Ward says doxing, revealing someone’s personal information online, is already a crime under the penal code which has high standards, but there’s no civil recourse for victims. By definition the code acknowledges that doxing comes with the intent to exact revenge, embarrass, extort or exploit a person and Ward says that causes harm. The new law, AB 1979, allows victims the ability to pursue civil action and receive restitution for the harms they endured as the result of being doxed online.