[junktest]

Again, one more instance of the unhealthy trend in giving for-profit, 3rd-party companies your sensitive personal info, that the US Govt should be handling and be responsible for directly in the first place, making identity-theft and such nefarious activities easier.

[maxerickson]

The really unhealthy trends are the treating of a government id number as sensitive and the general mislabeling of fraud as identity theft.