your comment is equivalent to telling developers to stop wasting time on endless security fixes when we should just make computer hacking illegal, and prosecute people for it.
Who's going to do that? My spouse had an Oakland luxury apartment rented in her name, with her social security number and everything. But Oakland PD won't do anything, and nobody else cares either. The apartment management wasn't even sure they could evict because of covid restrictions at the time. It's fully reported, not our problem anymore.
If!? Basically every SSN has been breached. It's statistically certain at this point with how many breaches there have been. You think its feasible to prosecute that much fraud? For the same org thats paying $200m for broken websites?
Who is doing this?
Also, even the “social credit score” system in China has been greatly overblown and misinterpreted in western media. [0]
[0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-e...
If people are fraudulently abusing the social security number system, stealing other people's numbers and so on, then they should be prosecuted for fraud.
Implementing a Chinese-style facial recognition and social credit score program in order to keep tabs on everyone is just another authoritarian fantasy project, and government incompetence during the pandemic is no excuse for creating such a dystopian system.
One party wants to empower the Gestapo and the other party wants to empower the STASI. What could go wrong?