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MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

All those bits of information are caller personally identifiable information (PII) and are protected by law forvqnything involving health and financial data.

In it’s old form, the license isn’t a huge problem because people can’t use it to clear your accounts, fraudulently open credit cards, take out loans.

All of those are trivial with the SSN, combined with a few of the above data points.

Now, however, in America the drivers license is becoming required to be a full homeland security certified ID equal to or more important than the passport.

It is encoded with all your vitals and readable by a quick scan. With your full name, age, birthdate, address, height, weight, and eye color combined with the SSN, you are screwed if shady players have that.

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