"Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — and sometimes all — of an individual's nine-digit Social Security number."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090706171509.htm
More info from CMU: http://blogs.heinz.cmu.edu/ssnstudy/
Ralph Gross:
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=742
Alessandro Acquisti:
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/
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