> Unfortunately, it's just an anecdote. No, it's part of the distribution of outcomes that the current system can produce. Someone getting killed down the str

> Unfortunately, it's just an anecdote. No, it's part of the distribution of outcomes that the current system can produce. Someone getting killed down the street from me is not "just an anecdote", either, even if I know a bunch of people who walked that path just fine and there was one other one guy who "only" got mugged. Think about the complete lack of care that produces a system where if someone accidentally uses your SSN once (or perhaps it was a single keying error by someone else), that it can cause repeated associations between you and that person for years. The problem is that most of the cost of errors is externalized to consumers, especially in the worst cases. The only incentive to prevent these errors and mitigate these errors is to do the bare minimum necessary to avoid the regulatory or legislative hammer.