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Again, one more instance of the unhealthy trend in giving for-profit, 3rd-party companies your sensitive personal info, that the US Govt should be handling and be responsible for directly in the first place, making identity-theft and such nefarious activities easier.



The really unhealthy trends are the treating of a government id number as sensitive and the general mislabeling of fraud as identity theft.




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