They’d also have to ask for consent before selling your info.

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    Are the agencies that will cease to exist soon just trying to troll people now?

    Or is this a shout for help saying they actually can do new and innovative protections, if only they are not disbanded?

    This ssn protection has been years denied.

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        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.

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    geeze. i thought something so sinister would already be illegal. no??

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    With all the breaches over the years and exposures to malicious employees, hasn’t everybody’s SS # become of part public record? I wouldn’t want it used as a security thing.

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    … unless they make an appropriate contribution to the right politician or party.