[26401] in resnet
Re: Credit Checks and Social
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cal Frye)
Thu May 19 11:09:39 2011
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 11:06:06 -0400
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From: Cal Frye <cjf@calfrye.com>
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On 5/19/11 11:01 AM, Charlie Teater wrote:
> I am running into an issue regarding a social security number being
> required for a credit check. We run credit checks on co-signers for our
> apartment applicants that have poor credit and the social security
> number is required to run the check. I do not want to receive social
> security numbers but need a way to run the credit checks. Has anyone
> else ran into this issue and what did you do to resolve it?
If that was the only reason I needed it, I would keep it on paper and
shred it when I was done with it. It it never becomes electronic, it
isn't being stored, backed up, or stolen by hackers.
Guard that paper, of course.
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