DOD to Drop Social Security Numbers from ID Cards
04.03.2011 at 03:51pm
Jim Garamone reports that DOD to Drop Social Security Numbers from ID Cards
“Beginning June 1, Social Security numbers on military identification cards will begin to disappear, said Air Force Maj. Monica M. Matoush, a Pentagon spokeswoman. The effort is part of a larger plan to protect service members and other DOD identification card holders from identity theft,” officials said.
This change is one of the first offered towards comprehensive reform by Gregory Conti, Dominic Larkin, David Raymond, and Edward Sobiesk in SWJ‘s The Military’s Cultural Disregard for Personal Information and the NYT‘s Service Members Face New Threat: Identity Theft.
