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When I was coding an app in Russia I found out that middle name is not a required thing in our laws, while the employer insisted to make it required.

Names are a whole different topic, take a look at THIS: https://twitter.com/Hung_TT_Nguyen/status/150393686591691981...

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That's certainly a problem for a global site. Perhaps there's a need for name style box.

Oh another annoyance is the insistence there is a mobile phone number. I figure the dolts work it out in the end, there is a certain amount who are using that old number they had ten years ago :) ... the next pattern is they then set it to use sms to verify that number ... at which point I figure they're more interesting in mining personal data ... time to move on ...

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