Britain’s most tattooed man says new UK age checks block him from p*rn sites as facial recognition mistakes his tattoos for a mask, calling the tech discriminatory.
Correct. We can have as many names as we like too.
However there’s various documents available that are proof that one is using a name. So for example my bank wouldn’t let me change my name unless I present something like a deed poll. Said deed poll is literally just a print out with some stock phrasing and the signatures of two witnesses.
We don’t have a central database that covers everyone in Britain (unlike, say, Sweden). If I want to change my name I can just start using the new one. Amusingly lots of people in the UK don’t know this and are sure it’s not the case. I ended up switching banks because the final straw was how poorly the staff were trained on the subject. My new bank and the DVLA did not have similar weird ideas, thankfully, so now my name is updated on my driving licence, etc…
Holy shit. That’s his legal name?!
So is it first name ‘King of Ink Land’, last name ‘King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite’? Or is there a middle name in there?
Whoa whoa whoa. “The” King of Ink Land? That’s his name, not a title!
Godspeed, King of Ink Land. I sincerely wish you success in this fight.
The true King of United Kingdom.
There’s no such thing as “legal names” in the UK.
People don’t need to file paperwork to change their name? They just start using a new one on legal documents?
Correct. We can have as many names as we like too.
However there’s various documents available that are proof that one is using a name. So for example my bank wouldn’t let me change my name unless I present something like a deed poll. Said deed poll is literally just a print out with some stock phrasing and the signatures of two witnesses.
We don’t have a central database that covers everyone in Britain (unlike, say, Sweden). If I want to change my name I can just start using the new one. Amusingly lots of people in the UK don’t know this and are sure it’s not the case. I ended up switching banks because the final straw was how poorly the staff were trained on the subject. My new bank and the DVLA did not have similar weird ideas, thankfully, so now my name is updated on my driving licence, etc…