But in the mobile age, it's easier to share intimate pieces of information like photos and videos, as well as equally sensitive information such as e-mail passwords, banking logins, health insurance identification and Social Security numbers.
The Weather Channel feels that the naming process makes for quicker media identification, especially via social media, allowing people to track the storm story fast and easily.
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Being able to mine massive amounts of historical data from the social web to extract metrics relating to activity, sentiment and anomaly identification provides financial firms with ample opportunity to isolate valid trading signal within processed social data.
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An IRS audit showed that 72 percent of tax returns filed by those using (ITIN) taxpayer identification numbers and not a Social Security numbers claimed the child tax credit.
The program works by providing a special tax identification number instead of a Social Security number and participants are guaranteed that the information can't be used to deport them.
Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.
Some banks might require local identification cards or the local equivalent of a Social Security number.
C. asserted that from January 2009 through June 2010, and again from October 2010 through October 2011, Myspace, a social media Web site, transmitted information, including internal identification numbers of users, and their ages and genders, to outside ad networks that served ads to Myspace.
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But privacy activists see letting police use DNA information without a warrant or a conviction as another loss for American privacy, with Americans' genetic information held by the government eventually being used for other purposes, just as Social Security numbers were originally not intended to be used for identification.
But it does undermine the fundamental identification system for U.S. citizens: your social security number.
Provisional ballots are issued in Ohio when voters lack proper identification or are using the last four digits of a Social Security number as proof of ID.
But on social media, some of Rodriguez's critics say he took the identification idea too far.
Key improvements recognised by the watchdog included an improvement in staff levels, a reduction in social worker caseloads to "manageable" levels, and an improvement in the identification of children at risk.
For example, in some countries, individual social-security numbers or tax codes are now used by government agencies as unique identification numbers to control access to health care or higher education.
An ITIN is, as I recently noted, an identification number issued for tax purposes when the applicant is not eligible for a Social Security Number.
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But you might find it difficult to set up a new account until you have suitable personal identification in your new destination (such as a job or rental contract or social security number in the US), so make sure you have a decent credit card with zero foreign transaction fees to get you through the first few weeks.
For example, categories like fast food or beer rely less on strong affiliation among their users but can still tap into social currency by helping others to learn from each other (beer) or by strengthening the identification level with other patrons (fast food).
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The fraudulent eBay site not only asks for users' eBay identification, password and email address but also credit card, bank account, drivers license and social security numbers.
If they turn up at the emergency room they must be treated you even if they have no identification, unlike the low income Americans who must produce a drivers license or at least a Social Security number, This allows a debt collector can track an then harass some elderly person or a single mother for money by bullying them?
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