The Federal Privacy Act was amended in 1976 to require that Social Security Numbers be kept confidential by the local, state and federal government agencies that collect them and that the SSN not be disclosed, and it provides the same penalties for unlawful disclosure as for disclosure of a federal tax return:
51 posted on 09/21/2010 7:31:42 PM PDT by pillut48
(Whenever O says, "Let me be clear," you know what is to follow is a bunch of nuanced BS!)