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		sollniss 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan Post launches 'digital address' system >So you wont have to reveal your social security to your taxi driver etc. if that was what you worried about. Yea, but now this taxi driver will forever know where I live. Thanks, but no thanks.

voxelghost 4 months ago [–]

So will he if you give him your ordinary address? It's good to be careful of these things, but I think you are being a little bit paranoid.

Dilettante_ 4 months ago | [–]

Reminds me of that old joke: Drunk man hails a cab, gets in.

"Where to?" asks the driver.

"Home!" says the man.

"Well, where do you live?"

"None of your business!"

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