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Yes, there's a solution, it's called one's social security number. If people are fraudulently abusing the social security number system, stealing other people'

Yes, there's a solution, it's called one's social security number. If people are fraudulently abusing the social security number system, stealing other people's numbers and so on, then they should be prosecuted for fraud. Implementing a Chinese-style facial recognition and social credit score program in order to keep tabs on everyone is just another authoritarian fantasy project, and government incompetence during the pandemic is no excuse for creating such a dystopian system. One party wants to empower the Gestapo and the other party wants to empower the STASI. What could go wrong?

comte7092 4y ago
>Implementing a Chinese-style facial recognition and social credit score program in order to keep tabs on everyone is just another authoritarian fantasy project Who is doing this? Also, even the “social credit score” system in China has been greatly overblown and misinterpreted in western media. [0] [0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-e...
skibidibipiti 4y ago
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LightHugger 4y ago
a social security number is not called that because it has anything to do with security, or is a good idea to use for that purpose... your comment is equivalent to telling developers to stop wasting time on endless security fixes when we should just make computer hacking illegal, and prosecute people for it.
toast0 4y ago
> If people are fraudulently abusing the social security number system, stealing other people's numbers and so on, then they should be prosecuted for fraud. Who's going to do that? My spouse had an Oakland luxury apartment rented in her name, with her social security number and everything. But Oakland PD won't do anything, and nobody else cares either. The apartment management wasn't even sure they could evict because of covid restrictions at the time. It's fully reported, not our problem anymore.
corbulo 4y ago
Could you even imagine where to start for pursuing a fraud case on the Equifax SSNs? If!? Basically every SSN has been breached. It's statistically certain at this point with how many breaches there have been. You think its feasible to prosecute that much fraud? For the same org thats paying $200m for broken websites?

comte7092 4y ago

>Implementing a Chinese-style facial recognition and social credit score program in order to keep tabs on everyone is just another authoritarian fantasy project Who is doing this? Also, even the “social credit score” system in China has been greatly overblown and misinterpreted in western media. [0] [0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-explained https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit-system-e...

skibidibipiti 4y ago

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LightHugger 4y ago

a social security number is not called that because it has anything to do with security, or is a good idea to use for that purpose... your comment is equivalent to telling developers to stop wasting time on endless security fixes when we should just make computer hacking illegal, and prosecute people for it.

toast0 4y ago

> If people are fraudulently abusing the social security number system, stealing other people's numbers and so on, then they should be prosecuted for fraud. Who's going to do that? My spouse had an Oakland luxury apartment rented in her name, with her social security number and everything. But Oakland PD won't do anything, and nobody else cares either. The apartment management wasn't even sure they could evict because of covid restrictions at the time. It's fully reported, not our problem anymore.

corbulo 4y ago

Could you even imagine where to start for pursuing a fraud case on the Equifax SSNs? If!? Basically every SSN has been breached. It's statistically certain at this point with how many breaches there have been. You think its feasible to prosecute that much fraud? For the same org thats paying $200m for broken websites?