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To: aladin who wrote (57099)	11/14/2002 5:12:54 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) of 281500

In Canada it's illegal to demand a social insurance number for most of those purposes you mention. It's demanded anyway, but I tell those asking they can't have it, and they should know that, and they back off. My reasoning, and that of the government is the # can be used both for invasion of privacy and for fraudulent purposes. If you've got someone's SIN #, you've got the cornerstone for a fraudulent identity. A Canadian public school might well demand a SIN #, (presupposing a child had one), but I expect they'd be breaking the law.

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