Re: "Economist" editorial

[Flyawaynot@aol.com]

I disagree.  I think people are losing their privacy because they have not 
been told, really told, of the consequences.  Why, even my mom now won't 
provide her SSN to prospective employers until given promise of employment.  
She had no idea that her background, medical or otherwise, was open for 
investigation based upon those nine numbers supplied by her on a job app.

I'll bet the ranch that if a nationally televised television commercial 
touted the realities of providing one's SSN for anything OTHER than what it's 
intended, the public would get damn mad and the repercussions would be felt 
far and wide, thus prompting the change in laws that are so desperately 
needed.

Kathy