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Re:Equifax Breach Caused by Lone Employee’s Error, Former CE... by WalterBright on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:46PM (#15398126)
> One good step would be to prohibit the use of social security numbers for anything other than social security.

That's already true, it's just ignored and not enforced.

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Re:Equifax Breach Caused by Lone Employee’s Error, Former CE... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:59PM (#15398170)
> That's already true, it's just ignored and not enforced.

That should make it easier to start punishing people for doing it then.

Even if the penalty was only a $100 fine, multiply that by 320 million counts and it turns into real money.

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