It seems that political pressure has led to the removal of social security numbers from one of the most accessed databases in genealogy - the SSDI or Social Security Death Index, and the removal of the entire database from RootsWeb.
You can read Kimberly Powell's About.com article for more details. What do you think about this move, and how much will it impact your research?
http://genealogy.about.com/b/2011/12/16/genealogy-sites-pressured-into-removing-ssdi.htm
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