They will be sentenced to a small fine and a harsh talking to that ends with a hug.
"And what did we all learn from this experience"
everyone begins laughing maniacally
Holy fuck! That's almost a third of the Earth's population! One corporation should not have that much data on individuals.
the worst part is this tidbit:
To conduct its business, National Public Data scrapes the personally identifying information of billions of individuals from non-public sources—meaning plaintiffs didn’t knowingly provide their data to the company, the complaint said.
so because our to-do list isn't already packed with extra crap, now you can add "check your accounts every day"
Checking your account every day probably won't even make a difference at this point.
"yep...still broke."
If they did that to EU citizens, that's massively illegal.
here's a list of all the consequences they'll probably face:
The only thing that's going to stop this particular type of hack is government regulation that prohibits the storage of personal information and heavy fines and jail time to enforce it.
Don’t worry everyone! We will all be entitled to 1-year of free credit monitoring so it’ll be okay!
Very cool that every institution will continue to act as if SSNs are private information and you can't get a new number issued until after someone uses it to steal your identity.
or you could start a religion and say your current number goes against it, so you need a new number
Argh, this is so infuriating! This needs to stop, we need proper protection against this bullshit. Clearly, the current way of doing things is insufficient. I can only hope that real change comes by actively fighting for it.
National Public Data is almost certainly subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act as a "Consumer Reporting Agency".
What seems to be missing from the FCRA is a requirement for the security of data being held by Consumer Reporting Agencies, although such a thing may exist and I'm not finding it. If it doesn't exist then Congress needs to get busy passing a law about it and / or Federal Agencies like the Consumer Protection Agency and the FTC need to look closer and find the existing provisions in the FCRA that would require it.
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.