When I was attending college here in middle Tennessee, your social security number was used as your student ID # by default, unless you didn't have one. Same for the credit union I bank with. My account number is my SS#. Whenever I receive my paycheck, there it is as taxpayer ID. I believe the privacy advocates lost the battle a long time ago with the American identification system now in place. Fighthing the implementations used is just fighting the symptoms instead of the problem.
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When I was attending college here in middle Tennessee, your social security number was used as your student ID # by default, unless you didn't have one. Same for the credit union I bank with. My account number is my SS#. Whenever I receive my paycheck, there it is as taxpayer ID. I believe the privacy advocates lost the battle a long time ago with the American identification system now in place. Fighthing the implementations used is just fighting the symptoms instead of the problem.
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