Humm ... I got mine in 87 when I moved to the US. Much before I even got my SSN, the INS and SSA drummed it into my head that I was 'not supposed' to reveal my SSN to anybody else.
Then I find ..... that I could be asked for my SSN if I so much (a bit of an exaggeration) as wanted to buy a loaf of bread. But everybody screams for encryption or security ... and then ... comes around several 'organizations' that will sell your information. Security ?? .. Encryption ??.. For what ??. AFAIK, it's a sales (and management) pitch. Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014 (res) [email protected] (Email) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Data encrypt My Social Security card, which I obtained ca. 1959, states the following: "For Social Security purposes. Not for identification." Perhaps that warning was referring to the card itself rather than to the nine-digit number on it. Bill Fairchild -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Data encrypt On 11/15/2011 10:35 AM, Ron Thomas wrote: > The customer number we are currently having the ssn as its identifier, > we need to make sure this has to encrypted . Let me know what process > we need to follow over here? While I'm not a lawyer, I was under the impression that using an SSN for anything other than Social Security and Internal Revenue Service was illegal. Even if your use is sanctioned, you need to consider that an SSN is not guaranteed to be unique; depending on your usage, this may become problematic (the IRS has a data file for non-unique SSNs, with additional data to disambiguate them). Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4618 - Release Date: 11/15/11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
