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by archerjax 525 days ago
My father, grandfathers and all my uncles are here. All deceased. I’m failing to find a use case for social security numbers to be present here. Or any of it to be honest.
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Dead people's SSNs are published on a regular basis by the Social Security Administration (the "Death Master File" or "Social Security Death Index"). Once you're dead it's not really private information.

I agree with you re: living people's SSNs, though.