It's a deal killer. It's an inappropriate use of a form of govt id which was intended for the SS admin, not the convenience of Sprint. A private biz cannot require you to divulge your ssn. It's the same thing when I was trying to buy a car and test driving. They want to keep my driver's license. They want to do this so they can run a credit check to see if I can afford the car I'm testing. All they need to know is that I have a valid dl, and that can be confirmed by visual inspection. When I test drove a car at another agency, they took no information from me, only my name. When I drove away without purchasing, they took my tag down and a few days later I received a nice ty note for considering biz with them. It's apparently legal, but at least I'm not volunteering info they don't really need.
--- On Mon, 6/22/09, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) <[email protected]> wrote: From: Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) <[email protected]> Subject: [CGUYS] Sprint Requires SSN to Open Acct, buy Pre To: [email protected] Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 11:14 AM According to Slashdot's article here <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/21/2359255/SSN-Required-To-Buy-Palm -Pre> you cannot open a Sprint account and buy a Palm Pre without telling Sprint your Social Security number (ostensibly so they can run a credit check). Anybody willing to do that for a mobile phone or is that a deal killer? Thank you, Mark Snyder ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
