On Sun, 7 Aug 1994, Garth Brown wrote:
---------- | From: Brian Lane <blane@squeaky.free.org> | It's unbelieveable (to me anyway) that people would give this kind of | information out and trust that it can't be abused. It's bad enough that | we're asked to hand out our SS number for everything.
It's my understanding that it's technically illegal for anyone to require your SSN for anything if they are not using it for SS related purposes. I had heard that congress passed a law when SSNs were issued to this effect.
Am I hallucinating, or has someone else heard this too?!
I have also heard this. At school they ask you for your SSN when signing up for classes, but you can get a random id number assigned instead(I found this out long after giving them my SSN). I filled out a credit app at Sears last month that asked for my SSN, I didn't give it and didn't get credit either. What exactly is SS related use? Banks, Employment only? BRian ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux : The choice of a GNU generation | finger blane@free.org witty comments pending | for PGP key and subLit ----------------------------------------------------------------------------