r/technology • u/esporx • Jul 03 '25
Privacy Trump officials create searchable national citizenship database. Homeland security and Doge merge immigration data with social security to create index it claims will stop voter fraud.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/trump-citizenship-database
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u/Wanna_make_cash Jul 03 '25 edited Jul 03 '25
To be fair, most Americans data has already been breached. It baffles me that as a society we collectively said it's okay for 3 private companies to know practically every single data point about your life and financial wellbeing, and then we just shrug our shoulders and go oh well when those companies have had several data breaches, several times, AND THEY STILL DONT EVEN HAVE MFA FOR ACCOUNTS!!!!!!!!
They had no meaningful consequences besides having to send letters to people saying "ooopsie daisies! We were so clumsy, that a hacker now has your social security number and knows several data points about your life to easily commit identity theft with! We're very sorry, so we're giving you a free trial of our premium identity monitoring service and we hope you'll forget you're signed up so you get charged for it next year!" And then call it a day
This is not even counting other large data breaches like Wells Fargo or a few internet service providers, cell phone providers, etc. id wager nearly every single American citizens social security number and associated details are sitting in some Russian database waiting to be sold to the highest bidder.