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Technically your personal ID is not public knowledge. The first eight digits are, which contain your birth date. The last four digits are always obfuscated. In
by drakonka 4y ago
Technically your personal ID is not public knowledge. The first eight digits are, which contain your birth date. The last four digits are always obfuscated. In reality, it is common to provide your personnummer verbally in non-private settings so if someone within earshot had some interest in remembering your ID they could.
Edit: The above might not be entirely accurate, check out the thread below. Some of these lookup sites may reveal the personnummer on registration and possibly payment. I've never tried this so can't confirm for sure, however.
- dosshell 4y agoDo you have a source for this? There are several sites (upplysning.se for example) that show full length of the personal ID. How does that work if it is not public information?
- drakonka 4y agoWhen I search for any name on that website, I see numbers as follows: "YYYYMMDD-XXXX" (with the "XXXX" parts being obfuscated). Do you mean it shows the full ID if you sign up for their service? I would be surprised if so, but have never tried that before so I suppose it's possible (that's also generally how these services provide tax information - behind a registration and usually paywall, even though you can request it for free from the tax office yourself as well). Edit: I think you may be right and that registration and possibly payment could reveal the whole personnummer: https://www.imy.se/privatperson/dataskydd/introduktion-till-gdpr/vad-ar-personuppgifter/personnummer/ https://www.imy.se/privatperson/dataskydd/introduktion-till-... TIL!
- dosshell 4y agoYes, you need to sign in (the account is free).
- boxed 4y agoThis is 100% WRONG. Anyone can call the tax office and ask for the full person number of any person and they will give it. Swedes are super confused about this so lots of people do the thing you talk about and think it's private but it's absolutely not. This disconnect between folk lore and reality is quite dangerous as people who believe the folk lore can start doing stupid shit like accepting the personnummer as alone being a guarantee of anything.
- drakonka 4y agoI'm not sure if you read the entirety of my comment, but I learned this shortly after posting and made an edit. I'm curious about this part of your comment: > so lots of people do the thing you talk about What is "the thing" you're referring to?
- boxed 4y agoYour edit contains: > Some of these lookup sites may reveal the personnummer on registration and possibly payment "some"? It's THE TAX OFFICE OF THE COUNTRY "may"? WILL "on registration"? No. YOU JUST CALL THEM. No questions asked. Your comment with the edit is still enormously wrong.
- drakonka 4y agoI edited my comment with the information I had at the time, and suggested that readers to check the threads beneath for more up to date information. I'm not sure why you're so offended about someone being wrong on the Internet, but I assure you it happens a lot. Hopefully all that caps helped you get some stress out though.
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agomrkoll.se lets you see personnummer, as do many other sites. Some of the big ones do not show it, but it's not because they can't, but because they do not want to.