Comment by kbart
8 years ago
Heh, that's the real problem actually with buggy name-based systems. In my current company we have a person officially called "Name Surname 2" for the same reason.
8 years ago
Heh, that's the real problem actually with buggy name-based systems. In my current company we have a person officially called "Name Surname 2" for the same reason.
A lot of state DMVs and other government offices apparently use name + birthdate as a "unique" identifier, which works about as well as you'd expect. It doesn't usually cause problems, because both people are accepted as 'real', but it's alarmingly easy to end up with someone else's license suspensions, voter registration, or even credit score.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-the...
Because Name Surname 1 was already taken!
Because Name Surname 0 was already taken!
No way they were forward-thinking enough to use zero-indexing.
Don't US payroll/hr systems use SS number its one of the few cases where it makes sense to use it