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Re:Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009) by Osiris on Saturday July 27, 2019 @12:25AM (#20540369)
I'm working in a product right now where we've run into this and we have a ticket to remove the family name requirements.

Even if we remove the family name requirement from our end, a third party we use for identity verification still requires a family name, so how do we deal with that?

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Re:Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009) by tempestn on Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:00AM (#20540467)
Request that they change, and if they won't, then find a new third party I guess?
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Re:Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009) by hcs on Saturday July 27, 2019 @04:18AM (#20541006)
Joe base26(md5("null"))
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Re:Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009) by tempestn on Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:27PM (#20543034)
It's an 'identity verification' service though, so I doubt it will work very well if you feed it bogus info.
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