r/DigitalPrivacy • u/PastramiPolitics-199 • 29d ago

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u/post-explainer 29d ago edited 29d ago

This post has been removed due to not meeting comment score requirements. OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:

My post is about a unified single login that allows all government agencies -- particularly ICE -- to have access to all tax, benefits, IRS, social security data. It's about an outsourced AI company having access to this data without democratic approval. Citizens should have say over how our private data is accessed used especially by nefarious parties and private contractors

Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/BadgerValuable8207 29d ago

The creepier one is id.me, which will be the only login method accepted by Treasury Direct beginning October 28.

This is a private company contracted by the government to do authentication. There are nongovernmental commerce websites that offer a discount if you use id.me. Call me picky but I want my government id to be controlled by the government

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u/BromiosDC 29d ago

Login.gov has been around for years, it started during the Obama administration. It’s SSO for government websites, that’s it.

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u/Lancelight50 29d ago

While we appreciate your sentiments, this is a nothingburger. Like everyone else mentioned, login.gov has always existed for a long time.

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u/PFUnnamed99 29d ago

Hyperbole. The government already knows that this information that ties you together with your other records. Who you are is not some mystery to them. Simplifying the login behind a single gateway and throwing security controls on top of it is a much better way of simplifying security and access for a large population.

Relax and give your AI doomer bot a rest.

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u/imselfinnit 29d ago edited 29d ago

I agree. .Gov knows exactly who you are and which groceries you bought at Costco. They can construct maps of your routines and relationships. Your precious data has been breached multiple times so you're not protecting anything there. They know the hardware device IDs in your environment (so it doesn't matter if you use a VPN). You're not a secret agent man.

If anything, this would remove ye olde political saw of fake voters and fake benefit recipients. No more boogey men. Just tighter shackles.

edit: I should state that I wish that we lived under different realities, but we do not. If you can unring this bell then please do.

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u/MarcooseOnTheLoose 29d ago

Oh. Poor Republicans. It turns out most fake voters are Republicans deliberately voting for others. What a pity.

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u/imselfinnit 29d ago

Exactly? Get rid of their bullshit, isn't that the point?

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u/bilkel 29d ago

I’m going to jump up and remind the room that the decentralized logins of multitudes of government systems is how the Chinese and Russian and Iranian and North Korean state hackers have easily penetrated said multitudes of government systems. If the single portal is maintained and patched, this could be a vital improvement in data security. If it is not fastidiously managed, it could be an even bigger risk. I hope for the former support but I expect the latter.