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
    491·
    1 month 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
      2·
      1 month 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.

  • derangerEnglish
    34·
    1 month ago

    You need login.gov for all sorts of shit now. It’s also not a third party it’s part of General Services Administration.

  • imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    Login.gov is actually pretty good. Used it for my TSA Pre long ago. I want to say in like 2017 or so. It supported RFC 6238 TOTP very early, especially for a government site.

    • derangerEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Login.gov requires KYC like authentication, as in upload a drivers license or do a video call and show your passport. It’s the official federal government login thing, I’m familiar with it from VA / GI bill stuff.

  • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Yea this particular site is a legit one. I’ve had to use login.gov while working for the government if you want to access federal information get used to this.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
    51·
    1 month ago

    On one hand, I realize that the office may be required by law to restrict certain information, so I see why they may need to know with certainty who they’re giving it to.

    On the other hand, all of that user account info is going straight to Elon Musk on January 20th, so I agree that it sucks.

      • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I was also thinking this could also be contesting the legislation for the freedom of information act by requiring a citizen of the US to own or possess a computer, smart phone or email address. The dept that runs FOIL offers the ability to request information by phone or email whereas this site does not. But I haven’t looked into any of this so I’m prolly 100% wrong. I don’t even remember if FOIL is federal or NY state ran program.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          It is really frustrating to me that data which is supposedly public cannot be simply downloaded all together as a large dataset, instead you have to go through a convoluted process to access only a narrow subset of it