A cynic in me suggests that this may be a move to push people off the system and disenfranchise them entirely, or the new rationale to create a second class of people who are forced to live with increased digital vulnerability while a new class of numbers can be generated with different privileges.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Lmao, like they’d do that
runsmooth@kopitalk.net 3 weeks ago
Sunforged@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They would do it to punish out groups…
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How would changing social security numbers punish people?
Sunforged@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If you make the barrier to entry high enough that only people with money can get issued new and secure ssn would be one way.
The more devious thing would to just not allow folks on your “terrorist” list to be allowed new numbers. Now you would have a new way to justify filling your concentration camps.
To be clear I don’t think currently anything like this is planned, this would just be the most fucked up way fascists could capitalize on their own fuck up.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Someone has to pay for the new SSN system. Someone has to pay to maintain the database for the old system, since a lot of stuff is still reliant on those “old” numbers and will be for some time. Someone has to pay for printing and distributing new cards to everyone. Someone has to pay for gov employees to check IDs and verify people before distribution. Someone is going to have to pay for errors in the deployment. Someone is going to have to pay for the damage done by identity theft.
I would bet that someone will not be Elon, or anyone else at DOGE.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not with that attitude it won’t be.