Yes, sort of, but in a stupid way. The number is treated as a unique identifier of a person, but you don’t carry it around since it’s so insecure.
Yes, sort of, but in a stupid way. The number is treated as a unique identifier of a person, but you don’t carry it around since it’s so insecure.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Why not just use the passport number? Or does your passport have the SS number?
maniclucky@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not everyone has a passport and you use SSN to get one. Passports are relatively rare for a lot of people in the US.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Interesting. In europe it’s made simpler because we have the same number on our ID and our Passport. And in many european countries that is what’s used for identification from the government.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the US nobody would want an official single identifier across multiple services and agencies like that, even though our SSN is essentially used that way. People don’t want to be tracked and linked by a single identifier, arguably because it would be abused by commercial and/or government interests, and then there’s the conspiracy nuts that would come up with who knows what reasons, and religious nuts that view a unique identifier as a “mark of the beast” or whatever.
People a fucking weird over here.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not everyone has a passport.