Obeying the law

Ken Blackwell wants to give away your private information!! This charge is what the Democrats hope will stick, when it comes to the SSNs on Blackwell's SoS website.

As Blackwell has pointed out, the option to put the numbers on their was voluntary. However, most people were responsible and kept the SSN off the form. Banks and other financial institutions took the option and put that number on. With responsibility and choice comes consequences; the money businesses should not have put the number on.

Ohio's Senate and House are rightfully looking to change the law with the biparitisan Senate Bill 283 requiring that no public record may have an SSN on it. One reason why is the Ohio GOP is no doubt hoping to avoid political fallout from invasion of privacy. Let us also hope they want to stop privacy invasion.

That the SSN would be private and never public was the promise of FDR back during the introduction of Social Security. I think it should be federal law the SSN shall never be on any application, and that its use requires permission ala private medical records that doctors and hospitals want to see.

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