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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: social security numbers
Message-ID: <2769@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-May-84 15:43:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: rabbit.2769
Posted: Wed May  2 15:43:11 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 3-May-84 19:33:30 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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When we applied for a mortgage for the house we recently bought,
we tried not putting our social security numbers on the application.
Result?  Two days later we got a call from the bank saying that
they had to have our social security numbers because the credit bureau
they use is keyed on SSN, and that if we didn't want to give it to
them we could go elsewhere for a mortgage.

I am convinced that what they did is illegal, but I don't see
anything that I can possibly do about it.