EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
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Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little [...]
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    A couple of days ago I had some trouble picking up a package because the software that printed the shipping label fucked up a character in my name (my guess is that it took the utf-8 input and decoded it as ISO/IEC 8859-1), and the first employee in the packet shop decided it didn’t match my id document, so this is not as innocuous as it sounds.

    • scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      This has happened to my wife with plane tickets. She has an é in her first name. Thankfully they let her fly but yes this can have serious consequences. She now usually just uses e but technically that doesn’t match her passport so it’s always a gamble.