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Yeah, my brother commented to me that in retrospect, my consistent objection to handing over my drivers license/SSN and other personal details needlessly wasn't
by metildaa 8y ago
Yeah, my brother commented to me that in retrospect, my consistent objection to handing over my drivers license/SSN and other personal details needlessly wasn't crazy (which at the time he considered odd behaviour).
After working with the credit bureaus, I don't llike giving out enough info for anyone to mess up my personal life. For example, even the front of a drivers license without the license number is enough info for fraudulent creditors to wreck your credit.
- Nasrudith 8y agoForget 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?
- ironic_ali 8y agoBanks employ lobbyists and hand out more than pizzas to politicians?
- ryanlol 8y agoSounds 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.
- metildaa 8y agoThe 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.