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From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: SS numbers
Message-ID: <492@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Sep-83 22:40:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  4 22:40:51 1983
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Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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At University of Illinois, where I attended graduate school, they used
the Social Security Number as the ID number.  I don't recall if they
ever claimed they were going to use it and what authority they had
to use it.  I didn't even give them mine on my application (it was an
optional field), and yet it somehow appeared on my plastic card.  I was
too lazy to chase down just exactly how they got it;  I suspect it was
from my undergraduate transcripts from another school, where I applied
before I was smart enough not to give them the number.
	Joel