Comment by scrollaway
10 years ago
there isn't even any obfuscation or semi-privacy about it like US SSNs.
GOOD. The US "private" SSN system is completely messed up. You can't commit identity theft by just knowing a personnummer. Very, very much unlike the US...
But you can. People treat the full "personal numbers" as a secret and if you can recite one, nobody will think you're anyone different. It's not meant to be this way, but in my experience it is.