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AT&T fires insider for slurping customers' social security numbers, driver licenses and more

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Why do AT&T even have these details?

It may be because I'm an uneducated Brit unfamiliar with American ways, but why would your cable or telephone provider need to know you social security number or your driving license number?

Virgin Media (cable) and O2 (phone) don't ask me for those sorts of details in the UK -- and both of those are just brands of foreign companies.

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