All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat
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A whistleblower warns a mishandled cloud copy of Social Security data could put millions at lifelong risk and force SSNs to change.
  • Foni@lemmy.zipEnglish
    142·
    8 days ago

    Or take out the guillotines for those responsible and burn to the ground where that data is stored. The next ones who try it may think better of it, if you just change your data it’s a matter of time before they get it again

    • freedomPusher@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
      113·
      8 days ago

      Moving to a country with some version of GDPR protection would be the most effective way to avoid a repeat.

      The US has what the Scottish call a “running goat fuck”. Americans’ data is compromised and abused repeatedly on large scales, to the point that when the data is exploited it can no longer even be attributed to a specific breach… too many breaches, too many fingers pointing. The only proper recourse is to bounce from the country.

      • Foni@lemmy.zipEnglish
        41·
        8 days ago

        How do you think that countries with a GDPR came to have governments concerned about that kind of thing? My option still seems better to me

        • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          By having people actively interacting with their government instead of ignoring it until it did something they didn’t like and then threatening them with violence.

        • freedomPusher@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
          14·
          8 days ago

          Your option is a collective action. Mine is individual. These are not mutually exclusive. But I cannot do a collective action on my own. I don’t have a guillotine but I can afford airfare out and I don’t need to rely on actions of others to take the individual action.

          You must have a lot of confidence in democracy in the US to do right by the people. I’ll leave this quote here:

          “In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they’re really factions of the same party, the Business Party.”

          – Noam Chomsky (1990)