Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
by Spooky23 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:57AM
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From a pragmatic perspective, they do a great job.
The point of identification is to identify people to some level of trust. In the vast majority of cases, that means that I should know that you’re the same person that I did business with yesterday.
Airlines need to tie you to an official document, which is much more complex. They do a pretty decent job at it considering all of the stakeholders who make that happen.
The hang-wringing about American hegemony is a projection of some other nationalist feeling. The constraints of Hollerith cards made it difficult to accommodate different character sets and the accommodations are codified in international treaties and business process. It will improve over time, probably first in the more cosmetic CRM side.
Accepting customers and accepting character sets or glyphs are two very different things. Accommodation is a two way street - if your name on the Starbucks cup is in Arabic or Greek, the barista in the US isn't going to be able to call it out. That not because the barista is some ignorant rube, they just don’t speak Greek.
The magic is we have a global system where many people have the ability to step in a plane and go almost anywhere and immediately conduct their business or pleasure with minimal friction. One of the friction points are issues like character sets, or poor accommodation of long names, etc.
The point of identification is to identify people to some level of trust. In the vast majority of cases, that means that I should know that you’re the same person that I did business with yesterday.
Airlines need to tie you to an official document, which is much more complex. They do a pretty decent job at it considering all of the stakeholders who make that happen.
The hang-wringing about American hegemony is a projection of some other nationalist feeling. The constraints of Hollerith cards made it difficult to accommodate different character sets and the accommodations are codified in international treaties and business process. It will improve over time, probably first in the more cosmetic CRM side.
Accepting customers and accepting character sets or glyphs are two very different things. Accommodation is a two way street - if your name on the Starbucks cup is in Arabic or Greek, the barista in the US isn't going to be able to call it out. That not because the barista is some ignorant rube, they just don’t speak Greek.
The magic is we have a global system where many people have the ability to step in a plane and go almost anywhere and immediately conduct their business or pleasure with minimal friction. One of the friction points are issues like character sets, or poor accommodation of long names, etc.