What the shit happened to freedom of information act? Now we not only have to sacrifice our privacy to some 3rd party contractor but I must also create a fucking account in order to access information our government provides? Fuck that shit. I’m just guna make a throwaway account. Scrape the fucking site dry and upload the shit to my own website. Fuck them.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Now we not only have to sacrifice our privacy to some 3rd party contractor

    No. It’s run by the government itself. https://www.gsa.gov/. Nothing about this is 3rd party.

    Edit: There was a push at one point to connect to a site called ID.ME… THAT was a disaster. Login.gov is good IMO… Must better than the alternative.

    • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I misunderstood the paragraph that says something about the site being monitored by the government or its contractors as meaning the site was made not monitored by a government contractor. My b.