Enjoy!

[james_davis_nicoll]

Oh my God

Parler required users to give their social security numbers

And now they've been hacked

This is the biggest fucking grift I've ever seen, I knew these people were stupid, but my God they gave their SSN because Twitter mods were "meanies" to them

— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) November 24, 2020

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Wow.

[ba_munronoe]

They're now claiming that it didn't happen: https://streetloc.com/news/view/J2b/parler-was-not-hacked-a-wordpress-config-file-that-was-leaked-online

[conuly]

Isn't the far right super obsessed with privacy?

[dewline]

Tired and not laughing.

[dormouse1953]

I take it that Parler is something you have to be in the US to join? (I have neither an SSN nor a driving licence.)

[ffutures]

OK, that's just stupid. Going by the Wikipedia description, how the hell would anyone think that signing up to that was a good idea? Hey, we need you to prove that you're a real person so let's have scans of a crucial document that makes ID theft trivially easy...

[thewayne]

Every doctor I go to has a block for your SSN on their paperwork, and I always leave it blank.

Maroons.

There's no possible reason Parler would require SSN. What, they're going to run background checks on all their users? I kinda doubt that. If you're not my employer, or someone that I want to borrow money from, or the government, you don't get my SSN.

[al_zorra]

well Parler is run / own / invested in

-- or or all of the above --

by the same shoggoths of Cambridge Analytica. Of course they're going to demand every bit of personal information from the fools that follow them as possible.

Perhaps these grift machines will collapse from their own weight of unbearable grift.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't use the site, but my understanding is that SS# (and photo ID) are required for members that are sufficiently popular, like the equivalent of the "blue check" on Twitter. Those members receive financial remuneration from Parler based on how many people click on their posts, so the SS# and ID are required because Parler has to report the money they give those users to the IRS as income.

I am confident YouTube also has the SS#'s of the people that are getting a cut of the ad money from that site.

So basically Parler is a site designed for people that decided that the cesspool that is Twitter is insufficiently deep and/or shit-filled, but this particular outrage is not properly worthy of outrage.

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Nathan H.