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Letter to Blue Cross on company’s use of Social Security numbers (SSNs) on health insurance cards

BCBS-follow-up-letter.pdf | 26.4 kB
March 23, 2004
CU believes the use of SSNs on these items may contribute to identity theft, and again we urge you to replace this sensitive number with an alternative identification number.

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