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Didn't you read Elon's post? SSNs database isn't deduplicated!


That's because there are SSNs shared by multiple people.



What? That sounds less than ideal.


It usually wasn't intentional: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html

The system still has to disambiguate and support the prospect of it happening though.




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