| Ninety nine percent of people can be traced through | | | | up-to-date. Also most employers ask for the SSN so |
| their social security number. A search using the | | | | that they can make a background check and hence |
| number will get you information of not only the | | | | many people know the social security number of |
| person's name, address and date of birth but even | | | | others with whom they are in contact. |
| aliases, other names, previous addresses and other | | | | Most organizations have a record of the SSN of their |
| important details. This makes it easy for people to | | | | employees. The first thing a person does if he is a |
| lookup peoples criminal records by their social security | | | | newcomer to the country is to apply for a SSN as it |
| number online. | | | | is necessary for any transaction. Hence it is easy to |
| The social security number of the person is first | | | | find a persons criminal history by SSN. To do a social |
| entered into a National Investigative Database and | | | | security number trace all you have to do is enter the |
| primary information is derived from here. Most people | | | | persons SSN into the public record database and hit |
| whose numbers are entered this way do not even | | | | search. After you hit search the database will then |
| know about it as it is very simple and anyone who | | | | show you all of the details about this person such as |
| knows the number can find out these details. The | | | | criminal history records, address, birth date and many |
| Government wants to keep every record of the | | | | more records of the person. |
| movements of the person and hence it is generally | | | | |