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This is critical since these are the form of identification most often used for such security-sensitive purposes as boarding commercial aircraft, gaining access to federal facilities and establishing bank accounts.

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This inquiry was prompted by families' concerns when they learnt that the hands of around half the Marchioness victims had been removed for identification purposes.

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Whether domestic or international, that agent is required to obtain your legal name so that it matches your legal document (used for identification purposes by TSA), as well as your date of birth.

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Among the safeguards it now places on local records, Suginami-ku's government deliberately tries to prevent such abuses by keeping its databases fragmented, giving each of its half-million residents a different identification number for different purposes, from health, to tax, to residency files.

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