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Hi, I thought this article was an interesting reminder that other institutions face issues relating to privacy of Social Security numbers and that in the past these numbers were not treated as being private. http://newshound.de.siu.edu/spring05/stories/storyReader$272 The gist of the story is that students at Southern Illinois University are being given the opportunity to pay $15 to have new student ID cards issued that don't bare their SSN. The computer system that is based on using SSN for indexing students was purchased in the 1970's and isn't planned to be replaced until after the current support contract ends in 2009. I'll skip adding my 2 cents about SSN and privacy. Cheers, Tom