This is on the credit reports we get from one of the three major credit bureaus. At the top of the page, the customer's social security number is truncated to four digits. About two inches down the page, the social security number is repeated again, in its entirety. What's the point of truncating it?
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So much for privacy of information
"I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
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The top is likely information for filing and sorting purposes while the information below that is the actual detail of the report, which would have as much as they can gather and legally share.
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Once went to Home Depot and bought a few little doodads. The receipt prints out, and the cashier takes a black marker and crosses out some info on the top of the receipt. Puzzled, I ask her why she did that. Apparently a computer glitch was printing out the cashier's SSN# on every single receipt. Supposedly management was "working on a solution". Mmmhmmm.A lion however, will only devour your corpse, whereas an SC is not sated until they have destroyed your soul. (Quote per infinitemonkies)
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Quoth flyingember View Postdon't worry, all you need is the last 4 numbers to confirm you're someone at many places these days
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One of my first programming assignments at my job was to fix one of the letter writer programs so that it printed the customer SSN on a different part of the page. Where they had it before, it was right about the address, and sometimes showed thru the window on the envelope.Sometimes life is altered.
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Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right
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Quoth flyingember View Postdon't worry, all you need is the last 4 numbers to confirm you're someone at many places these days
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