To me, Babak, this looks like a classic case of fishing for
information.
Identity theft is a major problem. Whether or not you hand
over your SIN, giving information that can lead to the revealing
of your SIN or even generation of a SIN assigned to a name is
dangerous. As others have mentioned, this information regarding
province and leading digit is publically and easily available.
Why would anyone need to ask for confirmation from another source?
Babak wrote:
> Why don't either of you explain the reason? Andy, why are you trying to
> find a relation between the first digit of SIN and province? And Dave,
> how is this in any way harmful, assuming of course that people only
> provide the first digit off their SIN and nothing more?
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