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

[beatrice_otter]

The far right regularly cheers on government surveillance such as the PATRIOT act and claims that anyone who doesn't like the NSA being able to get all your electronic data and metadata without a warrant is obviously a criminal or otherwise has something to hide.

[thewayne]

Ah, yes. The old "If you've got nothing to hide...." reasoning.

Sorry, blanket collection is useless. A study of the programs that Edward Snowden spilled the beans on showed that ONE prosecutable case came out of all that data swooped up, and IIRC it was a small money transfer case that had already been found and prosecuted long after it was sifted out of the NSA data.