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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: MCI MAIL - (nf)
Message-ID: <2182@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 09:16:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 09:16:35 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 21:13:25 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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A friend of mine signed up for MCI mail recently.
It demanded her Social Security number as part of
the enrollment process.  She tried not giving it,
and it wouldn't let her enroll.  She finally gave
it a random string of ten digits and it let her
continue.

The program said that it wanted her SSN so it could
run a credit check on her.  That, of course, is exactly
one of the reasons she did not want to give it.

I expect that in a few days she'll receive a letter
telling her that she has not been enrolled because they
could not locate her in their credit files.

I thought it was illegal for anyone to demand your
SSN for purposes unrelated to social security.