George wrote:
On 12/4/2012 8:27 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I was talking on the phone with my cousin today. She has worked as a
substitute teacher in several schools. She is between jobs. One of
the things she mentioned was that they require her to furnish her SSN
on job applications. Since the wrong person could do some serious
damage with your SSN, I really think it is a bad idea to have to
furnish them for a job application.

I went online tonight to put a hold on a book at the library. The
library is using the first 4 numbers of my SSN in their "primary
identification" field.


It is. I went through the same thing with a co-op we belonged to mainly
to get a group health insurance rate. The decided to use the SSN as the
primary ID in their database. I protested many times and gave them
supporting information. They moved to a "member number" as the primary
field just before we left them.



That seems like a violation of security to me.


Here in Massachusetts we use the CORI (Criminal Offender Record
Information) system to check all our new employees before they start work.

The CORI system asks for the LAST four digits of the person's SSN.

Jeff

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