Comment on Data brokers may be banned from selling your social security number

• Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number. The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that Americans are phobic to mandatory census.

  Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.

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