Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935 to help provide Americans with economic stability, especially to people over the age of 65. This included financial benefits that would be based on the amount of income they received before they enteredretirement.5 The Social Security Board was esta...
privacy Over the years, the federal government has implemented a variety of regulations to address protecting the privacy of individuals, many of which are closely linked to the use of SSNs (e.g., 1996 HIPAA Privacy and Security Laws and the 1998 Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act)...