http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473749157/its-not-just-what-you-make-its-where-you-live-says-study-on-life-expectancy
What got my attention was this:
Chetty and his co-authors collected more than 1.4 billion records from the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service to try to measure the relationship between income and life expectancy.
I thought those records are kept private. How do we really know these researchers do not have our SS and IRS info? Now I guess they are on some server at Stanford for anyone to access.
Can't speak to the IRS part of the study, but one's death is a public act and the SS death index is a public record. Genealogists and historians have been using them for years.
So anyone can get the SSN of a deceased person. I wonder how many of those are being used illegally?
Quote from: muwarrior69 on April 11, 2016, 07:35:26 AM
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473749157/its-not-just-what-you-make-its-where-you-live-says-study-on-life-expectancy
What got my attention was this:
Chetty and his co-authors collected more than 1.4 billion records from the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service to try to measure the relationship between income and life expectancy.
I thought those records are kept private. How do we really know these researchers do not have our SS and IRS info? Now I guess they are on some server at Stanford for anyone to access.
The IRS provides the data
without names and SS# (they have other anonymous identifiers). Emanuel Saez at Berkeley has IRS data on individual tax returns back to 1913.
http://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/SaezZucman2016QJE.pdf
Quote from: muwarrior69 on April 11, 2016, 07:35:26 AM
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473749157/its-not-just-what-you-make-its-where-you-live-says-study-on-life-expectancy
What got my attention was this:
Chetty and his co-authors collected more than 1.4 billion records from the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service to try to measure the relationship between income and life expectancy.
I thought those records are kept private. How do we really know these researchers do not have our SS and IRS info? Now I guess they are on some server at Stanford for anyone to access.
Paranoia strikes deep