Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.
If his account is correct, the mishandling of this information could expose hundreds of millions of people to fraud and abuse for the rest of their lives.
I hope what changes is that they become useless as a secret number, and become only useful as identifying numbers.
I’m of the opinion that national ID numbers, finger prints, face recognition should be treated as a username, not like a password key for things.