Companies nowadays are getting SO comfortable asking for our social security numbers.
Like why tf does Optimum need my social to install wifi? They're just an internet provider, they don't need my social. I don't care that the last people living at my location didn't pay their bill, there are a dozen other ways to prove that I'm not them without me handing over my social.
Anyway, hot tip, legally you can refuse to give your social security in unnecessary cases like this. If a company needs to prove that you are who you say you are, they have alternative ways to do so.
People who have a legal right to your social security number:
1. The government.
2. People who are giving you a paycheck.
That’s it. That’s everybody. Everyone else can fuck alllllll the way off.
I’m am so done with fucking medical providers trying to weasel my SSN out of me. I have spent decades arguaplaining to officious receptionists in medical offices that it’s illegal for them to require me to give them my social security number and they should not be asking for it.
Do you know how many businesses, medical providers, etc. get hacked on the daily? Right. Don’t give out your social security number.
THIS. Not sure where the sudden push came from, but ^^^^ THAT.
If someone who is NOT on that list there asks you for yours, calmly tell them, “I am not comfortable giving that information to you now/over the phone.”
I do this when ever I'm asked for mine and 9/10 the person I am talking to does a neat little verbal U turn and asks for some other ‘verification’.
Also, since it’s related, remember that government organizations DO NOT call you to contact you. The government sends LETTERS. Usually more than one even.





















