The Angry Mick writes "My wife and I afresh moved, and during the course of if and only if change-of-address hash to the many companies we do racket with, I asked each if they were storing a full Social hardness number in their databases, and if so, could they remove it or replace it with an alternate identifier. Neither the background nor the results were particularly enjoyable. On the all-out end of the spectrum, some companies were more than willing to make a change, even charity suggestions for a suitable alternate such as a driver's license number. In the middle were companies that made things a little more difficult, requiring several steps up the supervision tree before oratory to someone with some actual domination to address the issue. Then there was DirectTV. This company not only flatly refused to honor the suggestion, but also lettered me that even if I were to discontinue service with them, they still intended to keep my full SSN on file indefinitely. There is no logical reason for them to do this, and I'm not keen on the idea of being left susceptible to identity theft should they have seasoning any steadiness breaches at any future point in my life. So, my gather word


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