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Re:Stupid Patterns by _dain_ on Saturday January 01, 2022 @06:09AM (#29757383)
Under GDPR, people have the right to have their PII stored accurately and can demand corrections from companies. There was a case where a bank couldn't store someone's name properly, because its legacy systems couldn't handle characters with diacritics. The customer sued, and won.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with...

Not a lawyer but I imagine this is a similar sort of situation and the same reasoning would apply.

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Re:Stupid Patterns by aflag on Saturday January 01, 2022 @09:18AM (#29758430)
My understanding is that the lawsuit is still ongoing. Maybe some legalese is going straight over my head, but was it ruled in favour of the plaintiff? How much was the fine? Will they have to pay it for as long as they are not able to change the customer's name?
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