The Dead Database

From the new republic - 

THE DATABASE OF THE DEAD

ARE YOU IN IT?

AUGUST 13, 2015

The Social Security Administration maintains a database containing a record of every U.S. citizen who has died since 1936. What could possibly go wrong? In “The Final File,” contributing editor Paul Ford discusses a few problems with what the government lovingly refers to as the Social Security Death Master File. Explore it for yourself.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122529/database-dead-are-you-it

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