Give your SSN# online ?

[BushMasterBoy]

I'm not active duty. I don't know. This link says they do. Everything changes so much all the time.

http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/Doc...k_FAQs-DoD.pdf

[crashdown]

Agree with Foxtrot.

Plus all the people that take the high road about never giving it out except for the original reasons it was intended are usually not completely truthful, unless they don't have a cell phone, never financed a car, a mortgage, rent an apartment, a credit card, a checking account, etc.
It is just one piece of a puzzle to steal your ID, at this point in the game, not that big of one.

[kidicarus13]

Agree with Foxtrot.

Plus all the people that take the high road about never giving it out except for the original reasons it was intended are usually not completely truthful, unless they don't have a cell phone, never financed a car, a mortgage, rent an apartment, a credit card, a checking account, etc.
It is just one piece of a puzzle to steal your ID, at this point in the game, not that big of one.

+1

It is not on my DL

That hasn't an option since the early 2000's

[Hound]

Worst answer ever. I am powerless and should give up my right to protect myself. They will come after the other guy first because I am nobody.

Guess we know which way people like this will vote. I get so tired of hearing this false line of thought.

Really at this point anyone's SSN can usually be determined if someone cares enough. And that's just from federal and state databases/public record. So much PII has been hacked that I wouldn't worry too much about your own info. (That sounds crazy, I know).

Basically there's a sea of hundreds of millions of data out there for sale for $5.00, and there isn't enough cons to go through even a fifth of it. Your data may already be floating but most likely nothing will ever come of it. The chance of a small site like that being hacked to harvest that information is quite low, actually lower imho than the bigger, juicier targets.

[cstone]

Worst answer ever. I am powerless and should give up my right to protect myself. They will come after the other guy first because I am nobody.

Guess we know which way people like this will vote. I get so tired of hearing this false line of thought.

Right. Stand up for your principle OP. Tell them to shove their promotion and believe that your SSN is secure because of your standing up because someone on this board told you to. No need for you to make up your own mind.

[68Charger]

Worst answer ever. I am powerless and should give up my right to protect myself. They will come after the other guy first because I am nobody.

Guess we know which way people like this will vote. I get so tired of hearing this false line of thought.

You are powerless, the Gov't has included many other reasons and avenues for your SSN# to be shared... used to be just credit or wages... not anymore.

Someone asked for statues regarding the protections and reasons for sharing SSN?
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...edition=prelim
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...edition=prelim

Good luck reading thru all of that and interpreting it.

Oh, and CavSct1983 nailed it- you're absolutely NOT required to provide it for the BGC... and the OP's employer is absolutely NOT required to promote him, either.

[68Charger]

HILLARY 2016!

You forgot
(I tried to find an emojii for #BLM, but can't find one that much of a cluster)