ButtonMoon
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I am gathering the opinion that there are no privacy laws pertaining to a SSN. Neither is there a Law to do with the privacy of your DOB, Driver's License, and Medicare etc.
There is strong advice that one should limit who you give this information to, but no Law. This advice originated from identity thief.
I would think that there is a Law preventing you from sharing my information with a third party.
In Europe, personal data is covered by data protection laws. In general, companies and other organisations can only collect personally identifiable data with your permission and can keep it or share it only for the purposes which they told you about. Anyone keeping personal data has legal responsibilities to ensure it is accurate and protected from disclosure.
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/
http://www.ico.org.uk/
The UK equivalent of SSN is the National Insurance (NI) Number, which is mainly used for tax purposes, pensions and claiming state benefits.