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According to the author's tweet, the customer sued and won: https://twitter.com/edent/status/1450731852302532608 https://twitter.com/edent/status/14507318523025
by jstanley 5y ago
According to the author's tweet, the customer sued and won: https://twitter.com/edent/status/1450731852302532608 https://twitter.com/edent/status/1450731852302532608
I wonder why this fact is absent from the blog post?
This is a baffling ruling. I don't think an inability to support funny characters should be considered a GDPR violation. Anyone can put any characters they want in their name, and everyone is not breaking the law just because Unicode doesn't have made-up squiggles.
- xyzzyz 5y agoFirst, just to be clear, these are not by any means “funny characters”. These are perfectly normal characters in languages used by these people. Second, if you were trying to make a point that people can put Unicode emoji in their names, well, try doing that on a birth certificate and tell me what the registration office tells you. If you successfully manage to get an actual “funny character” in your legal name, let me know.
- orf 5y agoFor a lot of the world the characters you are typing with are “funny characters”.
- adolph 5y agoAt least 1.4B of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China