How exactly do “permanent records” work? Do they actually exist, especially beyond school?

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How exactly do “permanent records” work? Do they actually exist, especially beyond school?

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Well, school permanent records are largely a scare tactic.

But in today’s information age, all records are permanent. I recently has to do a Verisign kind of document to e-file my taxes. To confirm my identity, it asked me about an address I moved to in 2002 and a car I bought in 1999.