[papertyger]

Because I’m asking you x-spurts to provide me something relevant. What is it that you know that I don’t?

All I’ve seen so far is fuzzy hypotheticals and unfalsifiable contrivances.

[kiryandil]

For starters, enormous legal liability if your SSN-keyed database falls into the wrong hands.

Which is why we had to change our application programs entirely.

I'm also not on board with genealogy applications, and I actually do genealogy to keep my analytical computer skills sharp.

[kiryandil]

From 2008, TEN years ago:

https://www.mofo.com/resources/publications/six-states-now-require-social-security-number-protection-policies.html

30 states had laws relating to this ten years ago, and six were getting grumpy about it.