GAO to agencies: Stop using Social Security numbers for everything

Federal Times: Federal agencies continue to over-collect, over-use and over-display Social Security numbers, leading to the an unnecessarily high risk of identity theft.

That’s the latest from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In a recent report GAO declares that a decade’s worth of effort to pare the use of SSNs in government has had only “limited success.”

While all 24 agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act have developed plans to the reduce the use of SSNs, they have been hampered in implementing those plans.

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