In the late 1980s I lived in Sweden for a month or two without their personal ID number and I can tell you it was a real out-of-this-world experience. Finally somebody somewhere assigned me a number even though I never asked for one. One day the number just appeared on some document next to my name and all of a sudden I was like everyone else - well almost ; )
<br><br>Was it true that the Swedish bank account numbers were also based on the personal ID numbers? I remember running around offices, banks and the post office on payday just trying to get my salary...unbelievable. - Jouni
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Nilsson</b> <<a href="mailto:john.nilsson@piratpartiet.se">john.nilsson@piratpartiet.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:59 +0200, Rick Falkvinge (Piratpartiet) wrote:<br>> > > 4) The signer's full personal ID number (like, mine is 720121-4819:<br>> > > 1972, January, 21, 481st baby born on that date, 9 as a checksum
<br>> > > digit)<br>> ><br>> > Actually up to 1990 the 4819 means that you were the first boy (first<br>> > odd number) born in "Göteborgs och Bohus län" (48-54) (county of<br>> > Gothenburg and Bohus?).
<br>><br>> Right, but I thought that would be to complicate matters unnecessarily in<br>> that short description. My key point was that we are numbers, not names.<br><br>It is intersting though that you can derive all sorts of information
<br>from that number. You can se if you're an immigrant (i believe they have<br>60 added to the day in month), what sex you are and how many times you<br>have had your identity protected (you count the number of P's at the end
<br>if I'm not misinformed).<br><br>Regards,<br>John<br><br>____________________________________________________<br>Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br><a href="mailto:pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net">
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