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From: al@genrad.UUCP (Al Gudaitis)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: CONOCO requested my SSN to issue a c
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 17:34:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 17:34:48 1984
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All this stuff about allowing reasonable alternatives to SSN's like Driver's
License numbers sounds good until you get to a place like Massachusetts where
the Driver's License number is your SSN.  (Maybe the state was not allowed to
request my SSN for use as a License number?  I don't know, but, somehow, it
seems harder to dispute some government official's ideas in these matters than
a retail merchant's.)

					Al Gudaitis