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Article: COLUMN: Social Security Number should be kept private
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- University Wire
- Article date:
- April 7, 2000
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Sohrab Ghassemi
University Wire
04-07-2000
(The Hoya) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON -- I suggest that the Georgetown University administration use an arbitrarily invented number as our student identification number instead of our Social Security number.
The use of our Social Security number as our student identification number raises enormously pressing privacy concerns. The Social Security number should remain a very private matter, given out in only the most appropriate and needed situations. The university's use of this number as our student ID number is inappropriate and misguided.
As a result of this usage, our Social Security number appears on our student ID cards (when it should only appear on ...
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