Reserve America requires SS number?

cekkk wrote:

My SS card was issued to me in 1952 as a 9-year-old selling Coke at a stock car track. I still have it. On the card is the warning: Not To Be Used For Identification. Don't know if that's still the case.

Q21: When did Social Security cards bear the legend "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION"?

A: The first Social Security cards were issued starting in 1936, they did not have this legend. Beginning with the sixth design version of the card, issued starting in 1946, SSA added a legend to the bottom of the card reading "FOR SOCIAL SECURITY PURPOSES -- NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION." This legend was removed as part of the design changes for the 18th version of the card, issued beginning in 1972. The legend has not been on any new cards issued since 1972.

msmith1199 wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Apparently all of you folks advocating giving them a bogus SSN haven't read the entire thread... Way back on page one the OP posted this follow-up: "I did try bogus numbers...NO GO."

By bogus number, he probably entered a number that is an invalid SSN. Their computer system likely has a way to determine which numbers have been issued and which have not. If you transpose the last two numbers on your own SSN you are likely entering a valid number, but it just belongs to somebody else. And as has already been mentioned, using somebody else's social security number like this would be a crime. If it were me, I just wouldn't use the system and wouldn't give them a social security number before I'd commit a crime just to get around it.

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Apparently all of you folks advocating giving them a bogus SSN haven't read the entire thread... Way back on page one the OP posted this follow-up: "I did try bogus numbers...NO GO."

Francesca Knowles wrote:


Why would anyone bother to check Motel booking records when practically everyone in the U.S.A. has put themselves on the 24/7 it-can-find-you "cellphone leash"?

Except me...:B

Jarlaxle wrote:

Campfire Time wrote:
mleekamp cited the text of the law, but the link for it is here. So this is just a Kansas thing.

aruba5er wrote:
I don't think this is just a Kansas thing. If you want a hunting or fishing license in Wisconsin you must give your SS. They told me the same thing. So they can collect child support. I don't make reservations so i've never been asked. Heck, in dealing with the goverment ( and Reserve America probably ) has your information already. I know in Georgia and Florida give them your phone number and they will have everything on you already, probably even know about the mole on your left butt cheek.

WI does not require SS# to make camping reservations.

I really think this paranoia over stuff like is kind of funny. I'm not trying to be offensive to anyone, but it is naive to think that you have any level of privacy. Do you use a credit card? Then there is more information about you in the hands of private parties than you can possibly imagine. Do you have retail loyalty cards? Now you've given away more information. Target is just one company among many that does heavy marketing research, and here is what they are able to do with that information about us.

And of course you do use the Internet. Do you realize that even though you clear your browser's cache and run a fire wall, that everything you do on the net is cached on various servers and networking equipment? Its not done to track you, but to speed up your experience. but what could be done with that data?...

Privacy is a myth. We lost it long before the Internet came along. That doesn't mean I agree with collecting SS#s, but don't think that keeping your SS# a secret is keeping your personal info private. Not even close.

If a social security number isn't a big deal, then share yours! Everyone who wants to stay at a Kansas state park can just use that. See...problem solved, and thank you!

ol Bombero-JC wrote:

path1 wrote:
So how much is the gov't spying on americans?
Good post here that covers a lot from years ago to present. Just posting for people that think Gov't is only spying on bad guys.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/07/how-much-is-the-us-government-spying-on-americans/

Duck!

The sky is falling..:E

"They" can spy all they want..:R

Could care less if the gov't knows when I brush my teeth - or take a dump (black tank, of course). Whoopie.

BTW is the gov't spying on North, South, or Central "Americans" -
or did you mean citizens of the United States?..:h ~

wbwood wrote:

WoodGlue wrote:
I'll stay in Kansas campgrounds no problem. I'll give them my long deceased grandmothers SSN when I book. No problem at all!! Why boycott a perfectly lovely state full of nice campgrounds because you can't or refuse to be creative in your thought process.

WoodGlue

Kind of disturbed that you know your grandmas social security number and that you would use it deceive others.

Identity theft is a form of stealing someone's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name. The victim of identity theft (here meaning the person whose identity has been assumed by the identity thief) can suffer adverse consequences if they are held accountable for the perpetrator's actions. Identity theft occurs when someone uses another's personally identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes.

With that said, why are you afraid to use your own?

WoodGlue wrote:
I'll stay in Kansas campgrounds no problem. I'll give them my long deceased grandmothers SSN when I book. No problem at all!! Why boycott a perfectly lovely state full of nice campgrounds because you can't or refuse to be creative in your thought process.

WoodGlue

Identity theft is a form of stealing someone's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name. The victim of identity theft (here meaning the person whose identity has been assumed by the identity thief) can suffer adverse consequences if they are held accountable for the perpetrator's actions. Identity theft occurs when someone uses another's personally identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes.

path1 wrote:
So how much is the gov't spying on americans?
Good post here that covers a lot from years ago to present. Just posting for people that think Gov't is only spying on bad guys.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/07/how-much-is-the-us-government-spying-on-americans/