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"Legal name" policies are randomly discriminatory and thus not fair in principle. Some people have unique names, others have a name that is shared among thousa
by enriquto 6y ago
"Legal name" policies are randomly discriminatory and thus not fair in principle. Some people have unique names, others have a name that is shared among thousands of people. Imposing a real name policy is a great burden on the former, but it does not really matter to the latter.
- cynusx 6y agoThat's a fair point but usually that is solved by disclosing an additional datapoint like the date of birth of the person.
- techdragon 6y agoDespite the implications to people who understand the relevance for data matching purposes.... the majority of people in my experience don’t actually care about sharing their birthday. Even without the year it’s a powerful de-anonymising datapoint.
- cynusx 6y agoYes, exactly. it's sufficiently identifying to solve the discriminatory treatment the parent pointed out
- enriquto 6y agoWell, my intended conclusion was to reject "real name" policies altogether... But I agree that if you enforce the publication (not only the storage) of the birth date along the real name, then the discriminatory problem mostly disappears.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoIt looks to me like that you've chosen to solve the problem by harming everyone equally, rather than dealing with the root of the issue.