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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Social Security Numbers:  A Question
Message-ID: <318@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-May-85 12:51:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 12:51:27 1985
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> What do you think will happen to you that is bad if someone
> knows your social security number?  I can see the value of
> keeping a credit card number secret as some stranger can 
> order 10,000 Mr. Microphones with your number.  But I cannot
> think of any nasty thing that anyone can do to me with my
> SSN--assuming of course that I am an honest taxpaying citizen.

	Anyone with your SSN can access all sorts of information about
you. They can, for example, get all your academic records, your medical
information, your credit history, ad infinitum. If you don't MIND this,
fine, but lots of other people would prefer that such information not
be released without their prior consent.
-- 
  

jcpatilla

"'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill !'"