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Examples of situations for consideration
Ability to be forgotten
Deletion is delete not flagging
When an account is deleted it must be truly deleted, not just flagged for future delete. Note that some functionality like the recycle bin, we must keep the account details, but a recycle bin purge does truly delete the account.
Self determination and autonomy
Self name change
People should be able to change their own name at anytime. Consider divorce, leaving abusive partners or other personal decisions around why a name change is relevant.
This is why names are self-service writeable at any time.
Free from harmful discrimination of any kind
Cultural and Social awareness of name formats
All name fields should be case sensitive utf8 with no max or min length limit. This is because names can take many forms such as.
- firstname middlename lastname
- firstname lastname
- firstname firstname lastname
- firstname lastname lastname
- firstname
- lastname firstname
And many many more that are not listed here. This is why our names are displayName as a freetext UTF8 field, with case sensitivity and no limits.
Informed consent and Privacy of their data
Access to legalName field
legalName should only be on a "need to know" basis, and only collected if required. This is to help people who may be stalked or harassed, or otherwise conscious of their privacy.