[Proziam]

It only takes a company messing up exactly once, and the damage is catastrophic.

Everyone gets their social security number leaked...identity thieves have a field day.

Everyone gets their medical history leaked...insurance companies suddenly find another edge against the consumers.

Everyone gets their texts leaked...scammers now have blackmail against anyone who ever got spicy with their significant other.

Huge companies have been exploited before, and they will do so again and again. The only long-term winning strategy is to not let them have your data in the first place.

[paulryanrogers]

Nearly all SSNs have leaked by this point. The US needs a cryptography based ID system. That way each identification event is distinct, and each company gets a different (irreversible) derived ID for a person.

On that larger point I'd agree that companies should not have PII data they don't need.

[tiahura]

You prove my point. Most of those things have happened, many times.

Everyday there's a breach, and yet the world goes on.

[monkeywork]

"the world goes on"

This reeks of an answer given by someone who simply hasn't been impacted by an of this yet - I'm sure for those who HAVE been impacted the world didn't simply "go on" it caused real stress, problems, issues for them.

[3np]

And the lives of certain innocent individuals get ruined in the process. I guess it's fine as long as it's not you? "They didn't come for me..."

[card_zero]

, sucking.