Any good jobs at your school? The professional life is wearing me out.
- gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Milt Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: JAVA Certification
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Phil wrote:
>
> > Why would they give this information away?
>
> A better question is why do they need/want this information in the
> first place?
>
>
> > You seem to have something to hide? Maybe you do not have a SSN?
>
> Please. In this day and age, I think anyone who isn't at least a
> little protective of their personal info is somewhat naive and/or
> ignorant. And it doesn't mean you have something to hide.
>
>
> > In College we put our SSN on the applications. Why is this a problem?
>
> When was this? I work at a university, and the issue of privacy and
> use of the SSN is a hot one, and things are moving towards not using
> it (moving slowly though, since it's so entrenched, especially at a
> big school like I'm at).
>
> Further, there're lots more legitimate reasons that colleges would
> need SSN than Sun (like identification, official records, financial
> information).
>
>
> Apologies for this off-topic post, but I felt this response deserved a
> response.
>
>
> > At 11:31 AM 4/4/01 -0400, Mustafa Soysal wrote:
> > >How do you feel about giving blanket permission for your personal
> > >information to be shared to anyone Sun sees fit, including your tax
> > >number (SSN in the US)?
> > >
> > >That's what kept me from considering it. You have to agree to that
> > >in the US in order to buy the exam, and you have to disclose that
> > >information as part of the "exam".
>
> Milt Epstein
> Research Programmer
> Software/Systems Development Group
> Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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