Can Americans demand a new SSN, now that the whole social security database was exfiltrated by Elon (via DOGE) and leaked to Cloudflare + an adocacy group seeking to overturn election results?
Can Americans demand a new SSN, now that the whole social security database was exfiltrated by Elon (via DOGE) and leaked to Cloudflare + an adocacy group seeking to overturn election results?
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The bombshell is that Elon exfiltrated the social security records of all Americans and shared it with Cloudflare, DOGE, and an outside advocacy group seeking to overturn election results.
The fuckup is not just SSNs (slave surveillance numbers), it’s the whole 9 yards:
“DOGE team members were given access to databases containing:
- Social Security numbers
- medical and mental health records
- bank and credit card information
- tax details
- work histories
- and home addresses for millions of Americans.”
I suppose getting a new SSN is futile, even if permitted, because all this data is aggregated into the data breach. So change your name, move your residence, new SSN, switch banks... fuck, just leave the country perhaps.
(edit) I accidentally updated an older version of my post and lost a paragraph where I conjectured that the databreach was legal since it only violates the 4th Amendment, which the US tends to brush aside as we know from the Snowden revelations. Hence the correction from @ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip below. Sorry! No version control on Lemmy.