Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by perl4ever on Saturday November 09, 2019 @11:42AM
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Well, the number of middle initials/names that I used in the past is dependent on the constraints of the particular system, so I have no possible way to be consistent going forward. I would rather not use any at all, but Social Security and credit cards have one, while my credit union has the other, the DMV and my birth certificate have both, and I use neither when it doesn't seem important. It's definitely unreasonable to use my full legal name for everything, so I think at least three would be needed.
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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking
by shakna on Saturday November 09, 2019 @09:05PM
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So long as the business gets something that they can use as a legal identifier, they don't need to care about what is inside it.
The whole problem of people not having middle or family names goes away when it's treated as a single field. You don't care about tokenizing the field, because you only ever reproduce that field verbatim.
If the user believes a middle name identifier isn't necessary, then it probably isn't. It's only one aspect of the identifiable information used to identify the legal entity of that person anyway. If you have a name, address, possibly CC information, and email, that's probably more than enough to claim they're a customer for whatever legal purpose the business needs.