From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!rabbit!ark Newsgroups: net.aviation Title: Re: FAA violations of the Privacy Act Article-I.D.: rabbit.1026 Posted: Thu Jan 6 11:54:45 1983 Received: Fri Jan 7 03:49:22 1983 References: hou5f.176 When I got my instrument ticket, I decided I didn't want my SSN used anymore. I had been naive enough to supply it the first time around. After I passed, I told the examiner that I didn't want my SSN used. She said: "fine; where it says 'certificate number' I will just write PENDING, and they will assign a new number and purge your SSN from their files." She did, and they did. I can see one small advantage to using your SSN as a license number: if you lose it, it's easier to remember the number when sending for a duplicate.