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- From: "amy lynn young-leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Job ad from Computerworld - want SSN/drug test
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.234730.20527@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <C16Ct6.EKC@cmptrc.lonestar.org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:47:21 -0500
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- In article <C16Ct6.EKC@cmptrc.lonestar.org> neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard) writes:
- >In article <1jk591INN96s@tamsun.tamu.edu> bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell) writes:
- >>Guesses:
- >>1. They have never had to deal with a legion of people who demand privacy
- >> and refuse to give out their ssn, and they didn't know any better.
- >>2. They are entering some or all of your information into a database keyed
- >> to the SSN, and can't be bothered with generating an alternate ID number.
- >>3. They are screening for employment eligibility -- if you don't have a SSN
- >> then you can't work. (This isn't necessarily true, right?)
- >>4. THey are flat-out stupid.
- > 5. So they can check as many databases as they can weasel their way into
- > (i.e. medical records, school records, criminal records, you name it)
- > for which your SSN might have been used as the search key (most universities
- > use the SSN as the student ID number too, so that way they can call your
- > alma mater's registrar's office and give both your name and SSN for a
- > speedier way to see if you really did earn the degree you claimed in your
- > resume).
-
- 6. They don't *want* to hire the type of person who might demand the
- right to privacy by not openly giving social security number,
- submitting to numerous privacy invading test before even interviewing.
- It's so much easier to keep the herd that way.
-
- amy
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- alyoung@kiwi.indiana.edu Occupation: Lifetime Student
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- *This post was made on personal time and has nothing to do whatsoever with *
- * the attitudes or opinions of Indiana University. *
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