Well, in a letter (PDF) to the General Accounting Office, the Department of Defense has invoked one of the Conventions to defend its use of Social Security Numbers to enumerate members of the military!

So, I guess our administration has some use for the Conventions after all.

This really isn't funny. Military members are at particular risk of identity theft because they are frequently overseas, and not at home to receive the bills that arrive as a result of impostors using their credit. The ubiquity of the Social Security Number contributes to the incidence of the crime.