Re: Universities riskiest place for SSN

[Willis Marti <wmarti () TAMU EDU>]

On 11/8/2010 3:12 PM, Dan Peterson wrote:
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> I agree that High-Ed does report things that private industry does not;
> however, why does Higher-Ed need the student SSN in the first place
There are several reports to Federal and, in our case, state agencies 
that require SSNs.  And there are loads of former students that still 
have interactions with the University. We officially replaced SSNs with 
a "UIN" in 2005, but we're still cleaning out legacy grade sheets, etc.

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Cheers,
 Willis Marti
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 Networking and Information Security
 Texas A&M University