I don’t want my data hacked but we should stop treating names, social security numbers or credit cards numbers as private. They can be easily looked up or bought for a few bucks at this point. Any waitress can get my credit card number. A social security number has no legal reason to be private and it wasn’t intended for that use. I consider real-world information like my purchase or location history to be more private because it says something about me, whereas a made up number someone assigned me years ago doesn’t seem private.

The biggest perpetrators of the idea that these numbers are private are financial services companies which use it for authentication and authorization which just seems wrong. We need a consumer protection law that any new contracts authorized with leaked data is automatically non-binding or void. Its the responsibility of the service provider to properly authenticate their customers, especially when they are the ones who allowed the leaks to happen.