Don't google me bro!

[Plane]

     

But Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell University who studies social networks, is skeptical that rules will have much impact. His advice: "When you're doing stuff online, you should behave as if you're doing it in public -- because increasingly, it is."

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/109095/how-privacy-vanishes-online

   

The Carnegie Mellon researchers used publicly available information from many sources, including profiles on social networks, to narrow their search for two pieces of data crucial to identifying people -- birthdates and city or state of birth.

That helped them figure out the first three digits of each Social Security number, which the government had assigned by location. The remaining six digits had been assigned through methods the government didn't disclose, although they were related to when the person applied for the number. The researchers used projections about those applications as well as other public data, like the Social Security numbers of dead people, and then ran repeated cycles of statistical correlation and inference to partly re-engineer the government's number-assignment system.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The first three digits do not indicate the place of birth. They indicate where the cardholder worked at his first job.

[Plane]

The first three digits do not indicate the place of birth. They indicate where the cardholder worked at his first job.

At what age ?

Infants have them now.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I got my SS card when I was 15. Perhaps it would indicate where MOST people were born, but not all.

I got my daughter's card when she was seven, I believe, and we were not living where she was born, either.

[Amianthus]

The first three digits do not indicate the place of birth. They indicate where the cardholder worked at his first job.

They indicate where the SS card was issued. IRS rules now require issuance at birth (or soon thereafter) so it NOW indicates place of birth in virtually all cases.