As long as we're talking about SSN, I encourage all of you to write or call your Congressman and asked them to cosponsor the Identity Theft Protection Act.
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/co...5/cr010605.htm
The act calls for the issuance of new social security numbers and that "these new numbers will be the sole legal property of the recipient, and the Social Security administration shall be forbidden to divulge the numbers for any purposes not related to Social Security administration."