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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Personally I dont want the government documents with my home address and phone number and tax id and voting history to be leaked, tyvm

[–] stardom8048@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

While I disagree with OP, that kind of information isn't classified. It's personally identifiable information which is restricted and secured, but it's not classified in the same sense as the person who leaked on discord.

In response to op, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to classify information that are not nefarious. For example, a diagram explaining the security systems for a building. It's better to restrict access to that document so it is less likely for an adversary to see the details, because all that would really do is enable them to identify weaknesses which they could exploit. Generally this sort of thing is called operational security and I think it is actually the basis for the US government's mandatory access control in the first place (e.g. "loose lips sink ships").

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago

Oh the FBI definitely has a lot of PII on folks that's classified. What do you think they do??

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which is why that data should not be collected.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wut. So the IRS says I didn't pay my taxes. I say I already did, but they dont have records showing I did, so they insist I pay again?

You're not thinking.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Taxation is theft and the irs along with all world governments need to be desolved

[–] BobQuixote@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow, you're really going at it on the whole "not thinking" thing. 10/10.

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

how does your username not have an instance after it?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because they are on the same instance as you :)

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

but I see some with the instance after that are on the same instance???

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

I like having clean drinking water