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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!ucselx!crash!dbw
- From: dbw@crash.cts.com (David B. Whiteman)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Lucky Supermarkets copies social security numbers on to checks.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.122719.14861@crash>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:27:18 GMT
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- The California DMV has started to require a social security number when applying
- for an initial Calif. drivers license or identification card, or for renewing
- them. This is suppose to be used as an aid for tracking down fathers who skip
- out on child support payments (but they require a social security number from
- males and females). The signs all over the DMV clearly state that the social
- security number is used internally and will not be printed on the license or ID
- card, which is true. However all the new licenses and id cards have a magnetic
- strip. Now if you wish to make a purchase at a Lucky's Supermarket and pay by
- check the license is passed thru a magnetic card reader -- and the social
- security number is read from the card and printed on the back of the check.
- Therefore the number which is not suppose to appear on the license is simply
- available to any merchant that has access to a card reader.
-