> Social Security numbers are the keys to the kingdom. In this country, people get a unique number when they’re born, and the Social Security Administration tells them it’s secret and valuable. Then we use that number to pay taxes, to get government benefits, to apply to college, to get a mortgage, to apply for a car loan, to open a bank account, to track our credit. We’re asked to hand over this number again and again to institutions that have failed to guard it.
This is the problem right here.
To that sorry list, I would add medical providers' offices (doctors and dentists), all of which seem to request social security numbers for some reason on their patient intake forms, when all they should need is the patients' insurance information as printed on their insurance card.
This is the problem right here.
To that sorry list, I would add medical providers' offices (doctors and dentists), all of which seem to request social security numbers for some reason on their patient intake forms, when all they should need is the patients' insurance information as printed on their insurance card.