Bob

What stupid states do that then anyway?

LeedsGirl

Had my card nicked in bloody Disneyland, before I realised the scumbags has purchased $800 worth of goodies within a two hour period . Now on the back of my card it clearly says ask for ID and they still don't ask!

Bob

Having a bored weekend?

NC Penguin

I don't think it's a state matter. When one gets a drivers license issued, there's an option to include one's Social Security number on the card. So, it's up to the driver to include this information.



NC Penguin

fatbrit

Nope -- just my latest hobby horse. Relatively harmless compared with some of my others...

BritGuyTN

If anything, the next time I have a cc and i forget my DL I should be OK, rather than backing out of the store rather sheepishly

Bob

really?
I'm pretty sure there wasn't that option over in maine when I applied for my license...hmm...

Bob

now that could be scary, not doing a Ray on the side and shooting everything in site?

fatbrit

Only tested with Visa so far. Sources suggest also works with MC but I haven't tried. Avoid with Amex & Discover -- their policies are different.

AdobePinon

Not in any state I've lived in.

Pulaski

Have you ever objected to having your SSN on your Drivers license? .... or are you just going on the basis that no one in the DMV office has ever asked you if you mind, or would prefer a drivers licence number instead of your SSN?

Per the federal government's own rules a SSN is not an ID number and may not be required to be used as such - therefore a state would be in breach of federal law if they forced the use of a SSN as a DL number.

AdobePinon

Ah, I failed to make myself clear. I've never had an SSN listed on a license, and never been asked if I wanted it on the license. In fact, if I recall correctly, two of the three states never even asked me what my SSN was.

cindyabs

I lost two of my credit cards while in the Netherlands and the kind person who found them decided they needed to be used to the tune of $2400. Never mind that the cards had my name emblazoned on the front and showed they were obviously issued in the US-the kind person signed their own name ostensibly- so and so Van something. I wouldn't have minded if they had asked him for ID.

fatbrit

Hi Cindy:

Were you responsible for paying the fraudulent charges on your card?

Do you believe that mandating all merchants demand a photo ID would reduce fraudulent use of CCs?

Just Jenney

It didn't used to be that way, at least not in Virginia. When I first got my license back in 1989, your drivers license number WAS your SSN -- you didn't have the option to put anything else on there. Then a few years later they changed it to provide the option of having either your SSN or a DMV-assigned "T" number on your license. It was only two years ago (July 2003) that Virginia did away with putting SSNs on licenses -- now you can only have a "T" number.

~ Jenney