On 4/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the current generation of IDs, the SSN is encoded on the magnetic swipe strip. So, anyone who found your ID, and had a magswipe reader (easy to come by) could know your SSN. This is supposedly part of the university's plan to move away from using SSN as identifiers; so I [hope|doubt] that they have managed to counteract that by putting _more_ personal data in the code.
Try as I might, I haven't been able to find any further explanation on
this. Anyone know whether that's a euphamism for "we want to invade your
privacy by putting more personal data on your student ID", or is it
something else?
Side note: how was the university planning on telling us? I didn't think I was that out of the loop, honestly, but the first I heard about this was an unofficial email three days ago on a club mailing list. Did they at least send out an official email (and maybe my spam filter ate it or something?)
-Phil
