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The Ignobel prize in literature the police got awarded was a nice touch. I still wonder how their DB was set up to accept this data in the first place. It make
by xg15 2y ago
The Ignobel prize in literature the police got awarded was a nice touch.
I still wonder how their DB was set up to accept this data in the first place. It makes sense to allow a person to be associated with multiple addresses - people move, sometimes a lot - but a person should not under any circumstances have multiple DoBs, should it?
(Unless I missed "Falsehoods programmers believe about personal data: People are born only once" or something)
- fragmede 2y agoA person can't, but there can be multiple people with the exact same name, with different birthdays (or even the same!) so DoB isn't guarantee to be unique without some other identifier.
- xg15 2y agoAh, that makes sense. So the DB likely assigned the incidents to multiple different persons with the same name and not a single person.
- stoperaticless 2y agoWell, here is a story I heard (central Europe). Parents did not want the baby, so they left it at the door step, date of birth was not known, so some was assigned and used in some legal documents. Later, original parents changed their minds, real date of birth became known. (For sanity sake, I would just say choose one or flip a coin and be done with it, but at the same time I could imagine that some layer could take my sanity into account)
- n_plus_1_acc 2y agoThe DoB may change (per law, not the real), for example refugees without travel documents often get assigned Jan 01.