In my country I see quite often that people throw away documents which have their personal number (analogue to SSN), their name and address on it. Mostly people

In my country I see quite often that people throw away documents which have their personal number (analogue to SSN), their name and address on it. Mostly people don't even bother tearing these documents into pieces. Using this data I could do anything I want with their lives - order stuff in their names, arrange/cancel appointments with officials, register/deregister their cars, phone subscriptions, even deregister them from their addresses.