fwiw, independent of EAA policy, although they can't require you to provide your SSN, doctors, dentists and others who simply won't provide their service without your SSN, have already pretty much provided potential compromise of our data. Freezing your credit reports will go a long way towards protecting you against identity theft. Unfreeze it if/when you need credit yourself. We did that years ago when it became clear that our data was out there and no one was interested in adequately protecting it.
