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(2) Agency have some screen for full legal name which does not participate in integrated computer recordkeeping system. Agency says don’t you worry your name is recorded correctly in this screen but we can only activate it manually. What is the purpose of this manually activated screen which does not participate in any computer generated matchin, searching and other administrative activity including issue of the documents and reports? You understand that at the moment of manual access information on that screen cold be change by the operator so to print out correct information and then amend or delete. To the integrated system for matching, searching and services will go the name altered such as short name for example. Legal name requires to identify the person. Legal name definition has disappeared from the vocabularies. I have fond it only in Black’s Law dictionary, 7th edition. Legal name is full name of the person as known under law according to this definition.
YOur pharmacutial benefits from medicare will be given in first and last names only, your other medicare with single initial for one middle name only - that what is reported and matched. Good for visiters and trevellers!
(3) Person does not know what is recorded on the government recordkeeping system as his or her personal information. Yo have to put forward request under FoI so find about your own personal information. And then kindly ask to correct if it is not. You can see just printouts of the screen and who knows if it match the screen or altered or screen will changed back after printouts are made

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(4) You understand that if in Australia would be 15,000 of John Smith on the integrated inter-government computer system then it would not be probably of much concern. But where government system would show three John Allan Convey Peter Smith who was born under name Duncan Mathew Avery in Waroongah NSW on 26 July 1955 that would be alarm (also names of the parents could be stated to make identification more unique).
Sometimes address going to the matching system as only building number without unit. That also does not identify the person because the shortest acceptable recognised identification is legal name and address. Where address is not full then element is missing that might be insufficient to legally identify the person. Thus, for instance, if you whant to bring the court case against someone who uses you identity such as name at birth, place at birth, date of birth, all the lifetime changes including marriages with changing names, your education, immigration etc – against someone who practically imposer yourself but leaves at different address you might find that your position is weak in legal terms. Also a weak position might be the case where, for instance, you have for yourself or the person you want to sue the documents that missing one or more elements of address.
I saw on TV in current affairs the story about one man who has become full time engaged in catching someone who was using his identity. Writing and investigating and watching full time that sounds terrible, but …Another man would even withdraw money from the bank from the right person account from time to time! Right person come into possession of photo ID of this person, delivered the photo to the police, but nothing could be done under current law. Bank refused to do anything about withdrawals over the counter because the person would present with good identification and what they have to do is just to give the money to the person who has that proper identifications.