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Estonia government locks down ID smartcards: Refresh or else

Alan Brown Silver badge

"That seems to be a problem with the US SSN which is regularly part of the PII lost in data breaches."

The thing about US SSNs is that they're only required for certain government-related interactions (not even for tax, you can use a Taxpayer Identification Number instead)

Private companies were never supposed to process them and in most cases you don't have to give it.

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