Discussion (123 points, 16 hours ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45026372

Perhaps it is time that the US stops relying on SSNs being “secret”…

Edward "Big Balls" Coristine is a DOGE employee who now works for social security, just in case you were wondering who that might be. How anyone thinks a 19-year old right wing scoundrel has any place in any organization is beyond any comprehension.

My deep suspicion, given some of the players involved in DOGE, is that most of this information is being exfiltrated for the purposes of training AI models. They'll likely be used for social and political manipulation of groups and possibly even individuals. There's a big market for "pre-crime" solutions which will also rely heavily on this type of data and are already being deployed by various state-level law enforcement agencies.

The coming of the "digital caste" society powered by "social credit" scores seems to be the end game. This is a battle of the rich and powerful against the average citizen and they want to reduce all of us back into fiefdom. We can no longer trust a large federal or even state government with these tools.