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In article <comp-privacy2.7.9@pica.army.mil> cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison) writes:
>
>To me, the SSN is just one of many IDs which would allow some record about
>me to be correlated with some other record.  However, I assume that there
>are many such identifiers or characteristics -- either alone or in
>combination with others.
>
>Has anyone considered how to conduct one's life in order to avoid all such
>correlation of records?  [This strikes me as possibly a cryptographic
>problem, thus the cross-post.]

Well, according to some recent items in comp.risks in which people's drivers
licenses are being revoked mistakenly, it seems that you must have a name
which is unpronounceable and doesn't spell anything like anybody else's,
and a birth date which nobody else could possibly have.

So, yes, it does have something to do with cryptography - you get your name
and birth date from a true one-time pad.
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