On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:11:12 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> 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,

Maybe there, but not here...not everyone in the US has one.  Many people 
who live in the US don't, even though they're legal.

> as it's an unambiguous unique identifier (and the government has your
> data associated with it).

Over here we tend to be suspicious (some would say "overly suspicious") 
of the idea of a national identity database.  Governments around the 
world have demonstrated that they're not terribly good at keeping data 
that should secure secured.  Though the most recent examples I can think 
of are from he UK....

Jim

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