Re:Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social ...
by namibj on Thursday February 05, 2026 @02:40PM
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Do they have penalties in the 5+ digits for each such offense?
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Re:Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social ...
by salawat on Saturday February 07, 2026 @02:46PM
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Wouldn't matter. No one is interested in enforcing it, and there is too much value in the datapoint to credit rating agencies to tear the entire edifice down. Hell, back in 2011, I was part of a group migrating away from SSN usage at the Federal level. The biggest delay? Waiting for another semantically compatible I'd to manifest. TIN (taxpayer identification number) could be synthetically combined with a couple other ID's in the dataset such that they could finally retire the SSN's we weren't supposed to be using in the first place.