Facebook’s Stop and Frisk
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/facebook_s_real_name_policy_could_put_indian_feminist_preetha_g_in_danger.html
My friend Sands Fish is a data scientist and a grad student at MIT, and, like most people in his demographic, he uses Facebook. But Sands took an unplanned break from the platform this summer when Facebook sent him an automated message formally requesting that he verify his name with the company or risk having his account suspended. Indeed, Facebook requires people to display their “real” names on their profiles. The unusualness of Sands’ first name, especially in combination with his last, seemed to have sent Facebook’s name verification robots the wrong signal, and suddenly he had seven days to submit some form of state-issued ID or lose access to his account. After a few weeks of frustration, Sands complied and sent the company a scan of his driver’s license, proving that “Sands Fish” was not some maritime-flavored in-joke but in fact is his legal name. His account was reinstated.
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