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If EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR, then so are machine-readable passports as the format only allows ascii letters A-Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-r

• dane-pgp 5y ago
  That seems like a sufficiently different scenario to me (as a non-expert) that I think a court could reasonably reach a different conclusion. Firstly, if a government decides to "comply" with the GDPR by just seizing and revoking your passport, you might not have a case against them as the granting of passports could be considered a Royal Prerogative (or an equivalent under other systems of government) and thus non-justiciable. You might try to claim this is discrimination, but I don't think that "non-ASCII characters in name" is a legally protected class, and of course anyone could change their name to have or avoid non-ASCII characters. Also, if the format is designed to be machine-readable, then arguably the "accuracy" of your name on the passport has to be judged by the machine, not by you as the holder of that name. Moreover, the format is agreed as a consequence of an international treaty, which again might put it beyond the jurisdiction of a domestic court, and if your passport was declared invalid by a nation you were attempting to enter because it contained non-standard characters, that is not something that a domestic court could provide a remedy to.