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From: taylor@hplabsz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: social security number
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 17:56:02 EDT
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Pardon my ignorance, but what's all the big fuss about social security
numbers?  The landscape is already littered with other numbers that are
more likely to cause one problems -- MasterCard/Visa/American Express/other
credit card numbers, for example.  Is it just that social security numbers
may be one way of tracking down everything we do?  Your local credit bureau
or your insurance company already know a heck of a lot about you without
following your SSN around.  To me it just seems like much ado about almost
nothing.

-- 
                        John Miller  (ecsvax!phco)
                        Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of N.C.-Chapel Hill
                        Chapel Hill, NC 27514       (919) 966-4343