Government ID that the government has allowed to be turned into the one stop national credit ID.
Also, why would showing your license be any different then letting them keep the license while you test the car? On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:51 AM, One Man <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/21/2359255/SSN-Required-To-Buy-Palm%0A-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/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
