The problem will get worse until consumer protection and privacy are priorities. It will only get worse yet with the growth of identity verification enforcement across technologies.

Don’t worry, the resulting class action lawsuit will make them atone for their crimes. Expect your $1.17 Venmo payment in 9-27 months.

After Equifax and DOGE, I’m not sure I can bring myself to care anymore. Cat’s out of the bag, and no one will be punished. I get shit on, again and again, and my “representatives” rake in that sweet “lobby” money to ignore the issue. I just wish the bad actors would share the lawmakers information very publicly so they might finally start caring.

This will only start to stop once the fines for such data loss are high enough to make the costs for data protection look cheap in comparison.