Anyone named after well-known digital language assistants such as Siri or Alexa has the right to change their first name in the event of mental stress. The administrative court in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, decided this on Thursday in a legal dispute between a girl and a city council. The girl’s parents wanted to enforce the right to change their daughter’s name because she suffered from a lot of bullying.
According to the court, the responsible city council rejected the application, which led to a procedure. The judges concluded that the plaintiff’s psychological distress at preschool age justified the change. The parents have described numerous instances of harassment, such as when other people “ordered” the child as a language assistant. The child may therefore add a second name to his first name.
According to the court, the authority had argued that the charge had not been proven by medical or psychological reports. The judges judged the individual request for a name change to be higher than the public interest in retaining the name, since the plaintiff was not yet able to counter the intimidation due to her young age.
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Mental stress does not, in principle, have to be the magnitude of a disease requiring treatment, provided it is understandable and justified. In addition, the name of the language assistant is very well known and is not just a product name. It is also used explicitly to give commands. This in turn invites people with the same name to harass them.
Source: Krone
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