Difference between revisions of "Natural Person"

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Full Title or Meme

A Natural Person is a real-world entity that should have legal standing in some jurisdiction.

Context

• Typically a Natural Person, or Carbon-based Life Form is also a Legal Person.
• Everyone has the right to be recognized as a person before the law, as enshrined in Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights^[1] and Article 16 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.^[2]

Problems

• Refugees have trouble acquiring the right to an identity. The UN seeks to ameliorate this difficulty every year.
• Legal names can be changed by the bearer or guardian and so cannot be relied upon to stay constant over time.
• Legal names are only valid in a legal jurisdiction, typically a sovereign state.
• Moving the bearer of the name to a region with a different alphabet will require some sort of transliteration of the name at a minimum.
• So the legal name could be different in different jurisdictions.

Solutions

• User Objects should have a name (key) that is assigned when the object is created, and that should never be changed unless some error has occurred.
• Any other Identifier in the User Object should be changable under the right conditions.
• Each data control can decide for themselves whether they wish to track the legal status of the Subject of the database object that they track.

References

1. ↑ Roosevelt House “My Most Important Task” Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/exhibits/my-most-important-task/
2. ↑ United Nations, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rights

Other Material

• Synonyms: Real Name, Subject, Pseudonym