(idea) by neoliminal Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:52:07
A concept created by William Gibson which represented the need for governments to track people. Rather than having many different numbers to represent a person in a database, each person would be assigned a number at birth. This number would then used all parties for identifying the individual.

The TLA would be SIN.
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