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Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>>> And if the person in question does not pay his bills and moves to
>>> another place?
>
>> Then it goes to a collection agency which tracks them down.
>
> And the easiest way of doing that here is with the social security number,
> as it's an unambiguous unique identifier (and the government has your data
> associated with it).
Yes. Here, if you refuse to give your SSN to (say) the phone company,
they'll require about six months of deposit from you (i.e., about 6 bills
worth of money), and they'll give that back after a year. And you'll still
get sent to collections if you don't pay after that, and you won't get phone
service without a big deposit next time even if you give your SSN. (That's
one of the things those 300TB databases tracks.)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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