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Would love to know how the FBI dealt with transliteration deduplication of non-Latin names, cf. the many spellings of Muammar Gaddafi. Although I guess they wou
by jl6 5y ago
Would love to know how the FBI dealt with transliteration deduplication of non-Latin names, cf. the many spellings of Muammar Gaddafi. Although I guess they would just use whatever’s on the passport?
- oa335 5y agoThey didn’t. I know of several people with an extremely common name (Basically Muslim equivalent of “John Smith”) who were unable to fly or cross borders, even with the “Redress numbers” that they are supposed to give out in case of mistaken identity.
- jessaustin 5y agoThis reminds me of "interstate crosscheck", in which a "Tyrone E. Brown" voting in Pennsylvania was enough to kick a "Tyrone M. Brown" off the voting rolls in Kansas. https://www.gregpalast.com/interstate-crosscheck-on-the-verge-of-collapse/ https://www.gregpalast.com/interstate-crosscheck-on-the-verg...