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Re: Bare Social Social Security Numbers--thanks
From: "Geoffrey S. Nathan" <geoffnathan () WAYNE EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:21:56 -0500
I would like to thank everyone who has contributed so far to this fascinating discussion. I had not expected the blizzard of responses that it occasioned, and I very much appreciate everyone's input (and I'm sure all of us learned something in the process). I cross-posted to the Security and to the ICPL listservs, and there were responses on both (it does, after all, impinge on both). We here at Wayne have, at least tentatively, come down on the conservative side of treating any unique identifier as potentially damaging if leaked. As one of the members on my committee said, 'Which would you rather do--explain to those whose data was released that it was just a bare social security number, or explain to the press why you didn't tell the owners of those numbers that the data was released?' Geoff Geoffrey S. Nathan <geoffnathan () wayne edu> Faculty Liaison, Computing and Information Technology, and Associate Professor of English Linguistics Program Phone Numbers Department of English Computing and Information Technology: (313) 577-1259 Wayne State University Linguistics (English): (313) 577-8621 Detroit, MI, 48202 IT Fax: (313) 577-1338
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