Re: Disclosure of SSN

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 08:20 AM 9/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> Use the last four digits of their SSN and the julian date of their mother's
>> birthday. 
>
>This is an excellent option. My only concern would be that again, 
>we're depending on the individual to provide a part of the 
>information...

There is an obligation on the part of the organization providing the
monitoring to make the data reasonably available to the individual. If we
drop the use of the nationally-unique SSN in favor of locally generated
indexing numbers, then how do I know which James H. Smith is requesting
dose information? An individual who refuses to provide that unique number
makes retrieval of the dose info years later much less certain. Isn't the
individual who gives us false SSN info the author of his own data retrieval
problems?


Bob Flood
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(415) 926-3793     bflood@slac.stanford.edu
Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are mine alone.