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...using data from voter registration lists and social-networking sites, and studying statistical patterns in the Social Security numbers (SSNs) of people who have died, researchers Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross have developed an algorithm that could potentially identify the SSNs of millions of people. Acquisti and Gross warn that "unless mitigating strategies are implemented, the predictability of SSNs exposes them to risks of identity theft on mass scales...
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