At 04:59 PM 5/22/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote:
>If some fed thought it would be a "fine public service" to post all of OUR
>social security numbers online (truly easier than you know) would you still
>think this was anything to be glad about? The fact that such a powerful ID
>number exists on anyone at all is the real outrage, why not focus on that.
>Promoting the idea of "no expectation of privacy for anyone, especially
>people
>I don't like" hardly seems like a good idea.
>
>Publish away, but realize only thing keeping our social security numbers from
>going up en masse tomorrow is common decency and/or fear of a backlash. And
>while the fear of retaliation can be wonderful deterrent, that's a really
>lousy
>set of things to have to rely on.
It might have interesting social and privacy implications if someone
anonymously published all of the SSA's SSN data base.
steve
