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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Personally I dont want the government documents with my home address and phone number and tax id and voting history to be leaked, tyvm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

While I disagree with OP, that kind of information isn't classified. It's personally identifiable information which is restricted and secured, but it's not classified in the same sense as the person who leaked on discord.

In response to op, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to classify information that are not nefarious. For example, a diagram explaining the security systems for a building. It's better to restrict access to that document so it is less likely for an adversary to see the details, because all that would really do is enable them to identify weaknesses which they could exploit. Generally this sort of thing is called operational security and I think it is actually the basis for the US government's mandatory access control in the first place (e.g. "loose lips sink ships").

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh the FBI definitely has a lot of PII on folks that's classified. What do you think they do??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which is why that data should not be collected.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wut. So the IRS says I didn't pay my taxes. I say I already did, but they dont have records showing I did, so they insist I pay again?

You're not thinking.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Taxation is theft and the irs along with all world governments need to be desolved

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, you're really going at it on the whole "not thinking" thing. 10/10.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how does your username not have an instance after it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because they are on the same instance as you :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

but I see some with the instance after that are on the same instance???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I like having clean drinking water

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would the government know your voting history? Isn't voting anonymous where you live?

No idea what a tax id is but in Sweden everyone's home address, income, phone number, "personnummer" (a unique ID assigned to every citizen), and some other stuff. And for the most part it works pretty well. I'm usually concerned about privacy but I don't mind this because it applies to everyone equally (except a few people with protected identity for safety reasons) and it's just so open and convenient.

I'm not saying that all government documents should be public information but here most documents are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

God I hope the government records my voting history

As someone who votes over mail, it drives me crazy that I can't login to some website and get confirmation that they have received the vote, and what they recorded the votes as.

People deserve to be able to confirm their votes. Its a requirement for a democracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Vote in person then 🤷

Here it's only possible to mail vote from abroad and I have never done it but it doesn't appear that you get a confirmation here either.

If we are talking about registers of who voted and not for whom. Why does it matter? Who voted isn't secret at all. So why even bring that up? For the record I voted in the most recent EU and national elections.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cant vote in person. I live abroad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can't you vote at an embassy or consulate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a shame. Well at least it is not as important since you don't actually live there. Not saying it's not important, it's not just quite as important as someone actually living there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The person who has access to the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world affects all life on Earth