[Privacy] 300 Million Americans personal data stolen from Social Security office

DOGE was necessary to clean up a bloated government system that had been an issue for decades. There was no way around it. You're approaching it from the flip side where this has to be bad because everything related to Trump is evil. Where everyone has to have misintent. I am very comfortable with these people seeing my family members SS info and no issues with their checks have been reported. Only negative Ive heard are longer wait times on the phone. This just isn't that big of a deal.

Every situation has a potential worst case scenario, but you can't operate out of fear. It is a risk you had to take. If issues arise, we'll solve them.

 

Just go f'uck yourself.

 

It's all good.

I should not have said that.

 

"Argentina Database" kills me.

Sorry, that I was fully Salty.

 

"Democrats need to stop claiming the sky is falling"

 

Clown thread -- hilariously poor sources, absurd jumping to conclusions, and very poorly constructed arguments. We may need to consider having posters pass a training course or "fundamentals" course before being allowed to start threads.

DOGE is an essential improvement on how American taxpayer dollars are spent... and raised accountability in government... while eliminating billions in waste, fraud, and abuse... and yes, government was bloated -- anyone who is objective could see that. Yes, we need to cut spending -- anyone objective can see that. The elimination of the corrupt USAID office alone justified the DOGE initiative. Every now and then, government needs a bowel flush -- DOGE is providing that cleansing.


GOOD DAY

 

I'm probably one of the few regular posters here who consistently focuses on security and data privacy issues.

The tech industry doesn’t have access to your SSN. You’re deflecting so aggressively, but not even doing a good job at it. Let me help you out: everyone’s SSN is already compromised anyway, so you can claim it doesn’t matter that much. But that’s still wrong- it absolutely does matter. When the gov fk up this badly with our data, it matters (gov holds incredible power and responsibility- nuke, intelligence, military cap, critical infrastructure... it should not fk up basic security).

And what else do you think DOGE has done? Neither you nor I know, but I can tell you it’s nothing good. You don’t care because: You don’t really understand this stuff. You’re a defender of this Admin and DOGE, so you’ll deflect no matter what.

For regular Americans, the gov shouldn’t be screwing up this badly, allowing rogue individuals access to our data without safeguards. Next thing you know, millions of Americans’ private medical records are online. Then what will you deflect to? That private medical industry data was already hacked, so it’s fine? Probably so.