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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for students
Message-ID: <7387@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 01:58:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 01:58:32 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 01:42:44 EDT
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Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <4032@well.UUCP> rab@well.UUCP (Bob Bickford) writes:
> Info for your enlightenment:  It is *illegal* for anybody to require your
>social security number as identification or in order to do business with
>you.  There is a special exception for the Infernal Revenue Service; as
>usual, they can get away with anything.  But nobody else may require it.
>Thought you might like to know.

Truue, true.  Anyone dealing with the government (my father was in)
can probably quote the "Privacy Act Statement" they had to read
before giving their SSN on some paperwork.  Far as I can tell, though,
no one gets really huffy about it.  Be interesting if you refused to
give it when you enrolled in College . . .  Any true stories out there?

MikeP
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