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Perhaps you're right. But then they still need a way of uniquely identifying a specific individual across many products and services. If for combating fraud if
by UnoriginalGuy 12y ago
Perhaps you're right. But then they still need a way of uniquely identifying a specific individual across many products and services. If for combating fraud if nothing else.
There could always be an independant organisation who generates GUIDs for everyone, but you'd still want to improve on SSNs due to the limitations outlined above.
- maxerickson 12y agoThe unique id is fine. It's pretending that it can be a secret that causes all the problems. It should be treated as personally identifiable information and not distributed carelessly, but that shouldn't be mixed up with treating it as secret (which it needs to be to provide useful verification of identity).