They’d also have to ask for consent before selling your info.
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.
The concept of a SSN is crazy
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 a common ID is often useful but Americans have always been phobic to mandatory census.
Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.
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
… unless they make an appropriate contribution to the right politician or party.