As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number.
The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that a common ID is often useful but Americans have always been phobic to mandatory census.
Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.
As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number.
The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that a common ID is often useful but Americans have always been phobic to mandatory census.
Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.