During an auto accident & court case everyone- doctors, lawyers, insurance- used my SS# as a case identifier even though I never gave it out. If a few percent of these are sloppy, them one could be screwed. Some meth people like to dumster dive insurance companies and the like.
I'm waiting for a case of plausible deniability through abstraction of identity to cause the whole SSN based system to collapse. As sloppy as our government and corporations have gone about handling our SSN, there is ever increasing lack of confidence that it individually and uniquely identifies anyone.
If you are ever unfortunate enough to be unemployed in California, and claim unemployment benefits, they print your social security number right at the top of every correspondence. Idiotic.
That's what an SSN means; it's literally what it's for. The problem is the idiots who use it as some kind of secret unique identifier for people, when it was never meant to be that.
