Its also my college student ID number, so its on my student ID too.

*shrugs* I gave up trying being concerned about my SSN being on stuff cause its just too stinking hard to get it off of everything. I understand why its important, and I give people who do take the effort tons of credit. I just dont have the effort in me to worry about it, so i try not to think about it too much. In other words…. im lazy.

My SSN is not on my DL. The I-9 form doesn’t require anything but either List A (in my case, a passport) or items from List B and C (DL, SS card). No where on the form does it state that it requires more than a passport once the passport has been submitted. No where does it say on any additional forms that a social security card is required.

The thing is, requesting ID that has specific legal backing (like the I-9), it’s perfectly legal in that case to request those identifying items, and perfectly legal for me to choose which items to submit. Unless they have a legal reason that they can submit to me (in writing) that proves that I have to surrender such documents, they have no right (afaik) to require me to surrender those documents. To do so would be an illegal search.

Perhaps an accent or non-white skin or whatever would constitute probable cause for the government. I think that’s pretty shady.

Especially as government is more than happy to try to assert power through fear and intimidation through requiring nail-clippers to be confiscated at airports and your *rubber soled shoes* be removed to go through the metal detectors. These things don’t make people safe, but give an illusion of safety, and show the gov’t flaunting its power. Same goes for rumored proposals for random ID checks (some of which have taken place, I know the ACLU is working on a case re: a woman who refused to submit her ID during one of these random searches). I’m not saying my HR dept is part of a gov’t conspiracy, but merely that the more people that assert their 4th amendment rights, I think the better off we’ll all be.

I think a lot of people still surrender information freely without a thought as to whether or not they are exercising freely their rights to

I don’t remember if you’re required to show your Social Security card; they probably should. (BTW, your SSN should NOT be on your drivers’ license.) They’ll definitely ask in cases where you have a funny accent and thus may not obviously be a US citizen/allowed to work in the US.