According to a protected disclosure filed with the Office of Special Counsel, Borges told the Government Accountability Project that DOGE officials working at Social Security created a “live copy” of the country’s Social Security records in a separate cloud environment that sidestepped usual security checks.
The group says those lapses put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk.
Frankly having to have an ID card is not a boast. It’s depressing.
Why? It is an easy and secure way to identify yourself, be it for shopping or taxes or other necessary paperwork stuff, or anything else.
In any other country, I would agree. In the US, you’re guaranteed they will privatize the shit out of it until it’s costly, inefficient, unreliable, but someone became a billionaire.
because conspiracy theory nonsense and the government is inherently evil, or something.
apparently ‘freedom’ is living in the backwoods your entire life as an undocumented citizen or something.
and medical care and social security are ‘evil’.
You’d rather have papers?
I’d rather have nothing. The government shouldn’t care and no one else should either.