Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number

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• actually@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The concept of a SSN is crazy

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    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• cheers_queers@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  since they’re selling all my data, i should at least be getting royalties, fuck.

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• leanleft@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  geeze. i thought something so sinister would already be illegal. no??

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But some government agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI also rely on data brokers to get around surveillance restrictions.

  Well, exclude those agencies. Obviously.

  The best time protect personal data was 20 years ago. Why is someone just now thinking of this?

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Think of the FBI!

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• charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  With all the breaches over the years and exposures to malicious employees, hasn’t everybody’s SS # become of part public record? I wouldn’t want it used as a security thing.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Freeze your credit

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