cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/60478981
Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.
If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.
This number is required sharing so often by the time you hit middle age, there are good odds it’s in the wind already.
before 2011 the first three digits was the local when you requested one which is usually when you where born at the hospitals location and the next two are about when. When they ask for last 4 they are asking the the 4 digits that can’t be sussed out. for security.
Right? Which really puts the number in the wind.
My original uni ID was my SSN. It also was on our driving licenses for a bit, IIRC
At university in the 90s they publicsllt posted grades by ssn instead of name.
My driver’s license ID number was my ssn. Then they changed it to a different number, but I got a state ID as a backup with a pic in case the license was lost and that type of ID had my ssn. No idea what the state ID uses any more, but probably not that since apparently the very insecure and public nine digit number magically became super secret because credit companies wanted it to be.
I started in the late '90s as well. I can’t remember for sure if the exams/grades were posted by SSN. I have some memory of that, but I also have seen it in videos and I’m not sure if I’m conflating the two.