SSNs removed from Ohio's ID card
Ohio University is making their campus card more secure starting July 1, by issuing all students, including incoming freshman a new ID card. The new cards will be more secure, by not storing confidential information such as individuals’ Social Security numbers. The old ID cards left SSNs unencrypted on the magnetic strip, which was used by the library and other student centers on campus as a way to identify students. However, with the new cards, students will be identified by personal identification numbers issued by the university. The move to eliminate Social Security Numbers from the IDs come after five university servers were breached last year, compromising the records and SSNs of hundreds of thousands of people affiliated with Uiveristy. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/cr80news-4.gif)
