Comment on Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number
actually@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are the agencies that will cease to exist soon just trying to troll people now?
Or is this a shout for help saying they actually can do new and innovative protections, if only they are not disbanded?
This ssn protection has been years denied.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The concept of a SSN is crazy
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 10 months ago
As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number. The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that Americans are phobic to mandatory census.
Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.