Apple and AT&T today confirmed you can activate your new iPhone at home through the iTunes Music Store. This will avoid long delays at the retail stores on June 29th for sure but the devil is in the details as usual. You will need an active iTunes Music Store account with a valid credit card on file (no surprise about that) but even worse AT&T is requiring a social security number for the phone account. So your iPhone will cause you to turn over very sensitive personal information to the iTunes Music Store to get online. I feel some bad vibes about this, especially the SSN part.
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