quote:Originally posted by NashBama:quote:My employer, although they have known my ss number for 28 years, quit using them a few years ago, privacy act DOES apply to SS numbers, so we have employee ID numbers... so if I only have to give my employee ID number out to prove employment, why do they insist they have to have the SS number, which is just TOO dangerous to give out these days.
It's for a credit check, many companies require a credit check before they start service or accept any kind of payment. It's how they make sure you'll pay the bill. It's good to guard your SS#, but if you're too paranoid, you're going to find that no one will do business with you.
Not paranoid at all... I offered them many other means to check my credit without giving some company or some girl I did NOT know my SS number... but now, since then they have assured me that I don't have to give a SS number, and that I can get service ... I put it all in the other reply... I have received so many calls from them, and so many offers through the mail with huge discounts... and guess what? I still won't have to tell them my SS number.
If you watch the news, there has been many lives ruined by so called "GOOD" employees who gets ALL the private info from people and then either uses it themselves, or sells it so someone can do identity theft, and the kicker is the SS number... so no one gets mine... even Comcast never asked for it.
I get literature and emails at work all the time about NOT giving out SS numbers... the laws pertaining to it, and the whole nine yards... so if I am paranoid, my employer and home office is too, they are the one giving all the information out, plus the laws and websites to protect oneself...