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Why Google Wants Your Kid's SSN

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @02:33AM from the hello-toby-from-madison dept.

Jamie found a somewhat creepy story about a kid's art contest run by Google. As part of the entry, they need the last 4 digits of a social security number. The article suggests that the information requested by the contest should make it possible to guess at, and compile a list of children's social security numbers. It's bizarre and worth your read.

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Did Maddox start working at Google? by jackdub · 2011-02-23 02:38 · Score: 1, Funny

http://www.iambetterthanyourkids.com/ -- I hope THIS GUY isn't a judge!
Re:Well duh by Sockatume · 2011-02-23 02:42 · Score: 3, Funny

It's the last four digits that they were collecting, as a unique ID.

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SSN v6 by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-23 03:09 · Score: 2, Funny

They are running out of SSN's and will now implement v6. It will look something like this; wh47:0th3:f0ck:00is:g01n:00on:0n0w:dud3
Re:google can figure it out! by Drethon · 2011-02-23 05:01 · Score: 4, Funny

Thanks 711123
Re:TL;DR Version by Killjoy_NL · 2011-02-23 07:43 · Score: 1, Funny

Wasn't he from Kenya or something? ;)

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