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The German equivalent to the SSN in it's ubiquity, the "federal tax id", is illegal to use for non-tax purposes. As a German that feels about correct.
by namibj 8mo ago
The German equivalent to the SSN in it's ubiquity, the "federal tax id", is illegal to use for non-tax purposes.
As a German that feels about correct.
- salawat 8mo agoSSN is technically the same. The Social Security Act, actually has that point explicitly called out. Did anyone listen? Nope.
- namibj 8mo agoDo they have penalties in the 5+ digits for each such offense?
- salawat 8mo agoWouldn't matter. No one is interested in enforcing it, and there is too much value in the datapoint to credit rating agencies to tear the entire edifice down. Hell, back in 2011, I was part of a group migrating away from SSN usage at the Federal level. The biggest delay? Waiting for another semantically compatible I'd to manifest. TIN (taxpayer identification number) could be synthetically combined with a couple other ID's in the dataset such that they could finally retire the SSN's we weren't supposed to be using in the first place.