What pisses me off is the amount of data they have likely retained just because they require it up front. Instead of deleting the SSN of customers after some sort of initial verification they keep it around just because. It's not ebmven useful after the account setup.
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yeah I noticed this too. corporations have an obsession with even useless data
Not really a surprise these days