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No joke, this is happening to me right now with the SF MTA. I've already proved to them I don't own the car, but it seems like they didn't update their system l

by jrpt 10y ago

No joke, this is happening to me right now with the SF MTA. I've already proved to them I don't own the car, but it seems like they didn't update their system last time, so I got another ticket for something I didn't do, at a place I've never been to in my life.

djsumdog 10y ago
This happened to a photography editor who sits in the cube across from me. He found out he had a ticket in Pittsburgh, a city he had never been to, when he tried to transfer his license to a new state. No lawyer would take the case either. He eventually went to an identity theft company, who took $400 and fixed the issue in three months. I use to work in Identity Management at a major university. A number of people came through our systems without SSNs. We had a complicated set of rules to make sure we didn't provision two accounts. We'd check if the names were reversed and we'd check both the month/date = date/month on the date of birth (people from other countries might enter it backwards without thinking about it). We even had rules for SSNs that were off by <2 digits with similar names. Every morning we'd have a set of "manual provisions" we'd have to stop and check. Occasionally duplicate accounts get created and we'd have to go through a big manual process of combining them and telling them "You need to use this account; forget about the other one. It no longer exists," and get their stuff synced across all AD domains (Universities typically have several). What surprises me about this article is the NYC system doesn't use the SSN (which is good in a sense, it should never be used as a identification number, see the latest GCP Greg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus). The idea of an identity and criminal record us that follows us digitally is a very new concept, one that didn't exist 150+ years ago; or at least no where near the complexity it does today. Immigration was also treated very differently. Most of are criminal background procedures in the US are plagued with problems like this; which is why most counties require fingerprint/criminal checks for immigration screenings. Today, the idea of a national identification number is highly opposed in the United States. In some ways I favour this as I feel digital identities lead to a situation where people cannot escape their pasts. But it also means people use absolutely terrible ways to associate people such as name and birthday; totally non-unique fields that should never be used to identify people. SSNs offer no real security; no photos and your number +1/-1 is most likely a valid SSN of someone who was born the same day as you.
- mbrookes 10y ago
  >people from other countries might enter it backwards without thinking about it people from other countries might enter it correctly without thinking about it
  - seanp2k2 10y ago
    English: let's have separate sizes for fasteners vs the rest of the world let's use a separate standard for every physical measurement let's write dates backward let's drive on the wrong side of the road Frankly I'm surprised that we didn't use big endian for x86.
    - theandrewbailey 10y ago
      Except it didn't happen like that. More like: "Let's pioneer this field." Later: "Sure there are international standards now, but we won't change how we do things because money."
      - pmontra 10y ago
        The pioneering arguments is correct in some fields. For example TV sets and computer/phone screens are still measured in inches all around the world. I'm in Italy and I think gas pipes in houses are still measured in inches [1] and some bicycle components come with metric and imperial sizes. The imperial ones are getting rare. On the other side engines are measured in cubic centimeters even in the USA. But the pioneering argument doesn't apply to everything. Every country or area inside countries had their own units of measurement for basic stuff like mass of things, weight of food, volume of cups, length of poles, exactly like every city had its own time before time zones. There is no pioneering in the size and weight of containers for wheat. It's stuff people have been doing since before writing. Basically every country standardized most units but the USA didn't. I think that having the larger economy in the world played a role in that. There are no incentives to adapt when the rest of the world will build a slightly different size of everything only for the US market. [1] Check this conversion table for gas pipes http://www.azzistudio.it/tavola.html http://www.azzistudio.it/tavola.html and notice the weird values for the metric sizes (millimeters). Nobody would build pipes with those diameters if they started metric centuries ago.
pmarreck 10y ago
I wonder if I could defend myself from this using the Moves app (which is basically an opt-in way to have your location tracked and logged by another party)

by jrpt 10y ago

djsumdog 10y ago

This happened to a photography editor who sits in the cube across from me. He found out he had a ticket in Pittsburgh, a city he had never been to, when he tried to transfer his license to a new state. No lawyer would take the case either. He eventually went to an identity theft company, who took $400 and fixed the issue in three months. I use to work in Identity Management at a major university. A number of people came through our systems without SSNs. We had a complicated set of rules to make sure we didn't provision two accounts. We'd check if the names were reversed and we'd check both the month/date = date/month on the date of birth (people from other countries might enter it backwards without thinking about it). We even had rules for SSNs that were off by <2 digits with similar names. Every morning we'd have a set of "manual provisions" we'd have to stop and check. Occasionally duplicate accounts get created and we'd have to go through a big manual process of combining them and telling them "You need to use this account; forget about the other one. It no longer exists," and get their stuff synced across all AD domains (Universities typically have several). What surprises me about this article is the NYC system doesn't use the SSN (which is good in a sense, it should never be used as a identification number, see the latest GCP Greg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus). The idea of an identity and criminal record us that follows us digitally is a very new concept, one that didn't exist 150+ years ago; or at least no where near the complexity it does today. Immigration was also treated very differently. Most of are criminal background procedures in the US are plagued with problems like this; which is why most counties require fingerprint/criminal checks for immigration screenings. Today, the idea of a national identification number is highly opposed in the United States. In some ways I favour this as I feel digital identities lead to a situation where people cannot escape their pasts. But it also means people use absolutely terrible ways to associate people such as name and birthday; totally non-unique fields that should never be used to identify people. SSNs offer no real security; no photos and your number +1/-1 is most likely a valid SSN of someone who was born the same day as you.

mbrookes 10y ago
>people from other countries might enter it backwards without thinking about it people from other countries might enter it correctly without thinking about it
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  English: let's have separate sizes for fasteners vs the rest of the world let's use a separate standard for every physical measurement let's write dates backward let's drive on the wrong side of the road Frankly I'm surprised that we didn't use big endian for x86.
  - theandrewbailey 10y ago
    Except it didn't happen like that. More like: "Let's pioneer this field." Later: "Sure there are international standards now, but we won't change how we do things because money."
    - pmontra 10y ago
      The pioneering arguments is correct in some fields. For example TV sets and computer/phone screens are still measured in inches all around the world. I'm in Italy and I think gas pipes in houses are still measured in inches [1] and some bicycle components come with metric and imperial sizes. The imperial ones are getting rare. On the other side engines are measured in cubic centimeters even in the USA. But the pioneering argument doesn't apply to everything. Every country or area inside countries had their own units of measurement for basic stuff like mass of things, weight of food, volume of cups, length of poles, exactly like every city had its own time before time zones. There is no pioneering in the size and weight of containers for wheat. It's stuff people have been doing since before writing. Basically every country standardized most units but the USA didn't. I think that having the larger economy in the world played a role in that. There are no incentives to adapt when the rest of the world will build a slightly different size of everything only for the US market. [1] Check this conversion table for gas pipes http://www.azzistudio.it/tavola.html http://www.azzistudio.it/tavola.html and notice the weird values for the metric sizes (millimeters). Nobody would build pipes with those diameters if they started metric centuries ago.

pmarreck 10y ago

I wonder if I could defend myself from this using the Moves app (which is basically an opt-in way to have your location tracked and logged by another party)