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All telcos have to store SSNs, because most accounts are "postpaid" aka billed on the social credit of a customer. When you open a phone contract, they run you
by fridif 5y ago
All telcos have to store SSNs, because most accounts are "postpaid" aka billed on the social credit of a customer.
When you open a phone contract, they run your credit via SSN. Just another dumb way corps do things.
- lupire 5y agoNone of that is a reason to permanently retain the SSN.
- fridif 5y agoI completely agree, just merely telling you what they think the justification is.
- meowster 5y agoI agree. However a comment in another thread explained they would need the SSN to make a report with the credit bureau if you missed payments. That's an easy fix in my opinion: The SSN should be used for read-only. Once the credit report is read/accessed, the credit bureau issues a write-only code. The company then deletes the SSN and only retains the write-only code. If the write-only code is leaked later in a hack, it is useless to criminals trying to open new accounts.
- astura 5y agoIf they don't pay the bill/pay off the financed phone then TMobile will attempt to collect, sell the account off to collections, and report the account as delinquent to the credit bureaus. Having the customers SSN is basically required for those activities. A post paid phone plan is a revolving line of credit - just like a credit card.