The White House and Equifax Agree: Social Security Numbers Should Go – Bloomberg
Finally. Is now the time to remind everyone that the SSN was never meant to be used to verify identity? The SSN doesn’t need to be replaced for its intended purpose – to track income for tax purposes. Somewhere along the way, things went awry. Remember when SSNs were on our driver’s licenses?? How about your college ID? The digital age hit and everything went digital, except our identities. They’ve stayed cemented in information and documents, and fraud has flourished. The SSN doesn’t need to be replaced. We need a new system of identity and identifiers, and it’s being adopted.
By Brenda Sorenson
Senior Vice President, Tascet
