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In practice, yes. I have two middle names; most financial service providers decline to recognise my second middle-name. Same goes for the taxman and my pension
by denton-scratch 5y ago
In practice, yes.
I have two middle names; most financial service providers decline to recognise my second middle-name. Same goes for the taxman and my pension provider. It seems that a "full name" is no longer a canonical identifier for a person, just really a kind of nickname; the canonical identifier is now an account-number, employee-ID or whatever.
- michaelt 5y agoThanks to marriage, names were non-canonical before the computer was even invented.
- IIsi50MHz 5y agoAnd thanks to people moving house, or even changing profession, or acquiring some defining trait or accomplishment. With most people being undocumented throughout history, names could be much more fluid, like the way a person's "nickname" may change many times with or without consent.