Another attack on public records

PI Buzz reports that a California congresswoman wants the Social Security Administration to remove the Social Security Death Index from public access. Apparently a local TV station has also taken up the campaign.

Protecting the identity of the dead. Doesn't seem like a problem to me. Part of the value of the Death Index is that all the public records aggregators use it to flag records of the deceased.
Without it, wouldn't there be more chance of misuse?