alt Hacker News> What could you suspect if a person born in 1987 got a new PN/SSN around 2022?
Thank you for spelling it for me. For the readers, It leaks information that the person is likely not a natural born citizen. The assumption doesn't have to be a hundred percent accurate, There is a way to make that assumption And possibly hold it against you.
And there are probably a million ways that a record created date could be held against you If they don't put it in writing, how will you prove They discriminated against you.
Thinking... I don't have a good answer to this. If data exists, people will extract meaning from it whether rightly or not.
To quote the great Mr Sparrow:
> The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do.
When evaluating security matters, it's better to strip off the moral valence entirely ("rightly") and only consider what is possible given the data available.
Another potential concerning implication besides citizenship status: a person changed their id when put in a witness protection program.