Natural Keys

Triggered by the newspaper clipping about the poor Colombian guy who finally can rest assured he can travel without being harassed, because his namesake, the FARC leader, has been bombed to death, I wanted to make a point about natural keys. It is very unprofessional to use someones name as a key to a database. That nonewithstanding, all no-fly lists, blacklists and government databases do just that. Media are rife with stories about 5-year old boys that are stopped at every checkpoint because they share a name with a suspected terrorist. There should be a law to outlaw natural keys; it would make life less difficult and would stop mindless bureaucrats, because they do not know what it means.