Replace your bank accounts, change your SSN, change employers, and move address. All your data has been compromized. Specifically:
- social security numbers
- medical and mental health records
- bank and credit card information
- tax details
- work histories
- home addresses
Avoid opening new accounts at these banks:
https://git.disroot.org/cyberMonk/liberethos_paradigm/src/branch/master/usa_banks.md
Moving to a country with some version of GDPR protection would be the most effective way to avoid a repeat.
The US has what the Scottish call a “running goat fuck”. Americans’ data is compromised and abused repeatedly on large scales, to the point that when the data is exploited it can no longer even be attributed to a specific breach… too many breaches, too many fingers pointing. The only proper recourse is to bounce from the country.
How do you think that countries with a GDPR came to have governments concerned about that kind of thing? My option still seems better to me
By having people actively interacting with their government instead of ignoring it until it did something they didn’t like and then threatening them with violence.
Your option is a collective action. Mine is individual. These are not mutually exclusive. But I cannot do a collective action on my own. I don’t have a guillotine but I can afford airfare out and I don’t need to rely on actions of others to take the individual action.
You must have a lot of confidence in democracy in the US to do right by the people. I’ll leave this quote here:
“In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they’re really factions of the same party, the Business Party.”
– Noam Chomsky (1990)
Ew, quoting Chomsky the nonce
The US does not even allow databreach victims to become informed of who handled their data prior to the breach:
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/39815800