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It's already trivial for spammers to purchase social security numbers and other ID's for spamming purposes.

There's no reason to believe spam would stop if an online ID tied to a social security number is implemented.



I’m not talking about a social security number you input, I’m talking about a universal authentication system tied to individual SSNs among other things. Anyway theft of identities are far less common than scam calls, so your point isn’t even valid to boot.




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