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Federal Right To Privacy Act

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2GitHub stars
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What it is

Federal Right To Privacy Act

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-03-16 03:31:04 UTC to 2026-03-28 16:44:46 UTC.

01232026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 commentsMar 162026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 222026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 28

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 162026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC303
Mar 172026-03-17 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 182026-03-18 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 192026-03-19 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 202026-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 212026-03-21 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 222026-03-22 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 232026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 242026-03-24 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 252026-03-25 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 262026-03-26 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 272026-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 282026-03-28 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-29 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The bill text is at https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/blob/main/bill/rig... It contains following: > (i) Finance and high-risk identity proofing.—No person shall extend credit, originate a loan, open a high-risk financial account, or provide another high-risk financial service based solely on a Social Security number, static identity information, or an uploaded image or copy of a government-issued identity document. A person engaging in such activity shall use multi-factor identity verification reasonably designed to verify both record consistency and claimant control, using less intrusive reasonably reliable methods where available. > (j) Social Security number not sufficient identity credential.—A Social Security number, taxpayer identifier, or similar identifier shall not by itself be treated as proof of identity for purposes o
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f this Act. So, to me at least, it sounds like they actually mean "Providers must not use SSN for authentication (including fraud)".
In Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation

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