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EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…
Bank X also explained that the current customer data management application was launched in 1995 and is still running on a US manufactured mainframe system. But, a decade after the seminal Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names essay - we shouldn't tolerate these sorts of flaws. But if you can't properly store human names in their native language, you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit.
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