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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:15 PM Original message |
Why Has Google Been Collecting Kids' Social Security Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest? |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Disturbing, then again lots of companies collect ssn. |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Usually it is for ID in a financial transaction... |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. they don't need ssn!!! I didn't even know my ssn until I went to college, |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I didn't have a Social Security number until I was in college... |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. My google fu isn't strong so I can't find this, but I remember a story about ... |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 01:16 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. The draft was ended in the mid-1970s |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 02:12 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. That is accurate. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 03:36 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Interesting |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. The law stated that you were required to register. No if ands or buts. |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. We didn't get a SSN until we were old enough to get a job. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. When I was in college they used to have your SS# on your ID card for school as your |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. IIRC, when SS was enacted, laws were in place specifically forbidding the use ... |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. You better have your children's ssn if you want to claim them as a deduction on taxes |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
6. Deleted message |
jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Ouchie! n/t |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Exactly ... |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. If you have all that info, you don't NEED the first digits. |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. There you go, confounding us with the truth when we were just getting righteously indignant. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
14. Not even our schools or doctors get our kids ssn's. |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
15. Is there a cash prize? |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 01:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. The article, if you read it, says the only prize is a t-shirt |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. God Forbid ... |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 01:33 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. That claim is false. |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 01:35 AM Response to Reply #15 |
26. $15,000 College Scholarship and more for National Winner. nt |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
18. Anyone else here ever tried finding SSN lists on Google? |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 05:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Good work! |
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CBGLuthier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-23-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. Headline lies. Smell an agenda? |
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smiley_glad_hands (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
22. Much ado about nothing. eom |
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greyl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
24. "A follow-up clarification came from a Google spokesperson:" |
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MikeNY (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-24-11 04:02 AM Response to Original message |
29. Google's Motivation |
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