Interesting Links for 07-10-2017

[andrewducker]

Decades of Sexual Harassment Accusations Against Harvey Weinstein

(tags: sex harassment movies )

Replacing Social Security Numbers Is Harder Than You Think

(tags: identity security )

Model Arvida Byström gets rape threats after an advert featured her hairy legs

(tags: abuse women bodies OhForFucksSake )

Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream

(tags: racism usa media )

Bank Behind Fearless Girl Statue Settles Gender Pay Dispute with 300 women

(tags: banking gender inequality usa art OhForFucksSake )

Amber Rudd: UK viewers of online terrorist material face 15 years in jail

(tags: terrorism uk video law )

Mass Shooters Aren’t Disproportionately White (but are disproportionately male)

(tags: guns violence usa gender race )

Virgin Care asks staff not to report safety concerns to health watchdog

(tags: care safety OhForFucksSake virgin )

Comments

[calimac]

It's not like random strangers would ask for your SSN, though if they wanted it it wasn't hard to get. (It isn't hard to get now, either, because it's in so many ID databases.) The way things used to be, before the SSN was your ID code, was you might share it casually as you would, say, your blood type or your middle name, as just a random bit of personal information. Also, SSNs are issued in interesting geographical and chronological patterns, so casual fun could be had by a group of people comparing theirs. It wasn't intrusive, it was just there was no reason to hide it. That's completely changed.