Forget government agencies - anyone not afraid of giving them away is a fucking moron for identity theft reasons alone. Which I believe demonstrates a fundemtnal problem with how the system works - that the burden is even on the individual instead of the crediter is itself a problem.

If a schoolboy orders 3000 pizzas in your name that isn't your problem but the pizza place's problem. So why the /hell/ do we consider it different with big banks except for the general stupid human tendency to hold people in power to lesser standards?

Banks employ lobbyists and hand out more than pizzas to politicians?

Sounds pretty crazy to me.

Most people asking for your SSN or drivers license will already know your name and approximate location, therefore they'll have enough information to just look up your SSN and DL via various services like accurint.

You're trying to hide public information.

The credit bureaus only have 157M SSNs from living people last I heard, so no, for half of Americans their SSN is not accessible via accurint.