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by CamperBob2 1711 days ago
If only there were legislation in place to subject those breaching this misinformation to legal recourse

The SSN wasn't supposed to be used for identification at all, at first. [1] But the government decided that didn't apply to them, and then they decided that it didn't apply to anyone else.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/weekinreview/the-nation-n...