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wrote in message ... MacCandace wrote: I would hope that would not be public information. It certainly shouldn't be. But I think it is... Scarey, isn't it? You know, I heard that when they introduced SS #'s they swore they weren't going to be used for identification.... Alice Yes, it is scary, and the Social Security Administration STILL has a rule that SS is not to be used as indentification. What a laugh! The University where I work requires us to write our SS numbers on every check they cash, and these numbers are readily available to others (starting with the people who handle the checks). Ironically, faculty are not permitted to use any part of SS numbers for grade posting (not even 3 or 4 digits of the number, as we once did), but every university I have ever been associated with uses the number as the "student's ID" and prints them for all faculty, administrators, etc. This is only the tip of the iceberg, of course -- the part that I am most familiar with, but you will also find that stores require SS numbers if you want to open an account and various commercial entities use them for identification. I recently attended a speech given by the director of the local Soc. Sec. office, and he described using SS as identification as one of his "pet peeves." MaryL |
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