Man Sues Burger Joint for Receipt that had too Much Info on it.

Journal Star -  Nebraska man has sued Back Yard Burgers alleging the burger chain's Lincoln location puts too much information on its receipts. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Omaha, Brady Keith says on more than one occasion since March 19 he used his Visa card to make a purchase there and got a receipt back that listed not only the last four digits of the debit card, but also the card's expiration date. He alleges it is a violation of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and "exponentially increased the possibility of identity theft."

I'll be honest, I've never understood this security fear thing. Maybe I'm just not tech savvy enough? You could literally give me your social security number, home address and date of birth and I wouldn't know what the hell to do with it.  I'd probably just try to find and friend you on facebook, maybe check out your twitter stream (ours is @TheAltTab) and then forget all about you.  So what's the big deal here?

Take the SSN, yea whenever I call somewhere they ask me to confirm my social, but this doesn't make me feel secure if that's the intended result.  All it does is confirm for me the fact that just about every retail store, creditors, banks, IT people at my job, magazine subscription companies, amazon, ebay, paypal, and presumably google, have access to my social security number.  So it's clearly not some big secret.  Literally 10's of thousands of people can probably look up my social number with the right software.  So why exactly are people worried about this, and why was I forced to take my social off of my license in favor of some made up license number I have no chance of ever memorizing?