They’d also have to ask for consent before selling your info.

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    9 days ago

    As an ID number it has almost nothing to recommended it, especially compared to modern equivalents in Europe. It wasn’t meant to be a national ID number.

    The only reason we use it for identification in the US is that a common ID is often useful but Americans have always been phobic to mandatory census.

    Obviously they’re fine handling all that information to data brokers, however.