Social Security Numbers

Fact Sheets

10. My Social Security Number - How Secure Is It?
10a. Social Security Numbers FAQ

Alerts

  • IRS Information Returns: An Identity Thief's Dream? (January 11, 2010)
  • Protecting Your Social Security Number at Tax Time (March 5, 2009)

    • Speeches & Testimony

  • Uses of Social Security Numbers in the Private Sector: Why SSNs Are Not Appropriate for Authentication (January 25, 2008)
  • Social Security Numbers in the Private Sector: Comments to the FTC (November 12, 2007)
  • College and University Privacy Issues: Social Security Numbers and Smart Cards (June 21, 2001)
  • Social Security Administration Forum (March 28, 1997)
  • Third Privacy Roundtable - Comments Submitted to Federal Trade Commission (March 5, 2010)

    • Contributed Articles

  • The Secure Transcript: Survey of U.S. Universities' Use of the SSN on Academic Transcripts (Titus) (May 11, 2007)