Social security number

[luckykitty]

Hi!
What kind of services require your social security number, besides banks etc? And what do they do with your social security number? Can companies find your address through maistratti if they have your social security number , and when are they allowed to do that? I'm just asking because it seems so common to be asked for your social security number, like signing up for any kind of service, even free services like registering on websites etc

Thanks!LK

[raamv]

TBH; I would never give my SS for any services that I want for free!! Unless its provided by the Govt. agencies ( they now you anyways, of course ).
But can you given an example of signing with SS? cos not all of them require SS, but generally email.
For Tax etc., you need your SS but then VERO knows everything about you anyways..

[Pursuivant]

so they know you is you. you want a bill - they need to know someone will be paying the bill.

[luckykitty]

mm i think some huuto type websites ask ,and maybe even ircgalleria? I think its maybe those websites do charge some kinda fees if u opt to do something with it, maybe thats why? :S But it seemed kinda irrelevant to need to give ur SS.
So if a company has ur SS, they are allowed to find ur address? For sending bills if u get any? :S

[Pursuivant]

basically the SS shows you are a legal resident domiciled someplace.

[jas_rho]

The SS # is used a lot more commonly in Finland than in the US for example where it is a more private, confidential and used only for more government things.
Here, like everyone is saying, it's used more for a way to quickly verify your true identity, get the basic facts about you and your history and that's that.

[Pursuivant]

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom.

It uses the form DDMMYYCZZZQ, where DDMMYY is the date of birth, C is the century identification sign (+ for the 19th century, - for the 20th and A for the 21st), ZZZ is the personal identification number (even for females, odd for males) and Q is a checksum character. The checksum character is calculated thus: Take the birth date and person number, and join them into one 9-digit number x. Let n = x mod 31. Then the checksum letter is the (n+1)th character from this string: "0123456789ABCDEFHJKLMNPRSTUVWXY".

Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man...

[Rip]

Can companies find your address through maistratti if they have your social security number , and when are they allowed to do that?

Unless you have specifically asked for your information to be kept secret, they don't even need to have the Personal Identity Code (officially it has not been called "social security number" for perhaps two decades) for that:
http://192.49.222.187/osoitepalvelu/
http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/vrk ... endocument

In general I think disclosure of personal information is more free here than perhaps in many other places. For one thing, there are legal differences such as the obligation to keep officials up to date on where you living, and the fact if I know your name and domicile I can check how much you earned and paid taxes in 2007. So, a lot of information is public anyway.

On the other hand, most noteworthy money related transactions require (either a online passcode confirmation or) showing a valid official identification document (of which there are only a couple of types and all of them are at least fairly hard to forge). That i think has made at least so far identity theft a nearly non-existent problem.