Assuming that test is crisp and usable, and it's more of a Mac than an iPad, this looks very promising. If pass through works well, I could see this replacing a laptop for a bunch of use cases.
The article touches on a good point: one mistake and you're out. It doesn't even have to be your mistake - you didn't choose to put your SSN out there after all, yet here we are.
This gave me a radical company idea, on the other end of the spectrum: spam as a service. Something that'll take your name, email, and other things and put it all over the internet in questionable and plausibly denial ways. That way, even when someone is trying to find things out about you, it'll be hard to find, and easy to deny. (I'm kidding of course).
Maybe "like friends" is a better goal? People who will go out of their way for you and want you to succeed, but where there's still shared expectations of how you behave and interact.