Radek, I can't read the mind of Canadian legislators, but I would guess it has to do with fraud. I'm told that one can go through someone's trash, find old bills (telephone, power etc) and use that information to convince someone at the power company that I'm the householder because I have the bill, know the account number etc. Thence to defrauding the company and possibly the rightful owner. I'm guessing the Canadian thought is that the same sort of thing can happen with employee number.
I've worked at one company, as I wrote earlier in this thread, that used emp# for proof of identity when getting a password fixed over the phone. I don't think much of that scheme, and maybe that's why I go to that thought when guessing about the Canadians' motives. I have less sympathy for the user ID; seems to me that's necessarily a known quantity, at least internally, sort of like an IP address. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* There's remarkable overlap between conservative and liberal complaints about the culture. But when traditionalists talk the language of decency and morality, the left hears bigotry and theocracy. And when liberals talk about sensitivity and white privilege, the right hears something totalitarian. The result is that the two sides hold separate conversations. -Jonah Goldberg, 2007-04-17 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, July 14, 2023 05:39 I would like to know the explanation of such statement. IMHO employee# is as internal as userid. It is NOT SSN or other government number. --- W dniu 14.07.2023 o 02:32, Paul Gilmartin pisze: > Many years ago someone reported here that in Canada it was illegal to use > an employee# as a UID because it's considered privileged HR information. > I'd guess the same applies to user IDs. > --- On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:17:38 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >> A place I worked used initials followed by a 5 digit employee ID. >> xxnnnnn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
