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US Congress Proposes Laws Restricting Commercial Use of Social Security Numbers

  
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US Congress Proposes Laws Restricting Commercial Use of Social Security Numbers
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US Congress Proposes Laws Restricting Commercial Use of Social Security Numbers
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Quote:Democratic and Republican politicians on Thursday both promised to enact new federal laws by the end of the year that would restrict some commercial uses of Social Security numbers, which are often implicated in identity fraud cases.

"Whether Social Security numbers should be sold by Internet data brokers to anyone willing to pay, indistinguishable from sports scores or stock quotes... to me, that's a no-brainer," Texas Republican Joe Barton, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, said at a hearing. Such a practice should not be allowed, he said, "period, end of debate." ...

Quote:Another measure, sponsored by Florida Republican Clay Shaw, would restrict the display of SSNs on credit reports and on various government-issued documents and identification tags. It would also make it illegal in certain cases for anyone to refuse to do business with people who decline to supply their SSNs...

full article: http://news.com.com/Congress+may+slap+re...g=nefd.top
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