Submitted 5 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24311498/cfpb-rule-data-brokers-social-security-number-fico-score
They’d also have to ask for consent before selling your info.
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?
Think of the FBI!
geeze. i thought something so sinister would already be illegal. no??
since they’re selling all my data, i should at least be getting royalties, fuck.
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.
Freeze your credit
actually@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
The concept of a SSN is crazy
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 weeks 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.