Peter Duniho wrote:
"Privacy Act". Right.

at least California came up with the Civil Code Section 1798.85
-- gosh, why do I manage to memorize things like that, but
can forget where I parked my car? -- which brings a bit of
sanity in the whole thing (in short -- probably inaccurate
summary, but that's the gist of it as I remember it --
it prevents whoever has your SSN# from being as outwardly
careless and reckless with it as they once were, e.g., using
it in correspondence, on membership/id cards, etc., not
much about how they store and protect the info though...

--Sylvain