Wow, you're saying they did something that will result in wide scale SS fraud? Right as they need to prove its full of fraud to kill it?? Nooooo....

SSNs were never intended to be a security tool, but got shoehorned into it. Fraudsters who get ahold of the data can cause serious damage, but most identity verification these days uses multiple factors and no so much SSNs. Time to freeze your credit w credit bureaus if you haven't done it already.

i think that any business that has our social security numbers should be taken over by the government

SSNs being a tool at all kind of brought about the myth of “identity theft.” Not that I will broadcast my SSN, but in the end, if somebody else took out credit in my name using the SSN, why does that involve me? That was a thing done between two entities I had no relationship or contract with.

when verizon started collecting them to get a cellphone in 2002 they were cooked

rather than issue everybody new social security numbers, one of the the doge youths is going to suggest putting our identities on the blockchain or something

How any self-described "libertarian" could be on board with any of this shit is Orwellian.