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No thanks. The biggest "SSN misuse" is by commercial surveillance bureaus that use the number as a hook to crosslink and store detailed permanent records on each of us without any sort of consent or accountability. Strengthening the technical foundation of personal identifiers only makes sense after such abuse has been stopped.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20566396



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