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Comment by adrr

Fines or threat of jail time is just trying treating the symptoms. Bigger issue is that companies use SSN as a way to authenticate a user. Government should mandate only allowing SSN for tax identification purposes. Passwords need to go away and with webauth, we are almost there. The average person is re-using the same password across sites so it’s pointless protection.

An e-commerce store hack shouldn’t give hackers the data needed to access customers financial accounts.

parent adrr 4 years ago

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