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A new Consumer Reports survey says that 89% of Americans want the government to implement better safeguards on their social security numbers, and that 87% "claim to have been asked in the past year to provide their Social Security number, in whole or in part." [MSN]

A new Consumer Reports survey says that 89% of Americans want the government to implement better safeguards on their social security numbers, and that 87% “claim to have been asked in the past year to provide their Social Security number, in whole or in part.” [MSN]

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