Hi yes its US government time again. I'll go back a few years now to a text blog I Wrote back in February 2014 when I was kind of doing text blogs didn't do this as a video but I am now this has happened again. But let me recount an old story ahead back in 2014: I Bought some parts from Element14 / Fardels here in Australia to be picked up at the local trade counter here and you know I gave him a few hours. normally it takes them, you know, not much time at all but I gave him a few hours or whatever.

Then I drove to the Trach Annex I needed the parts that day and they said I know sorry we don't have them ready and I went well you know I've given you like you know at least two or three hours. normally you have it done in no time at all. Maybe no, let us check. they check their system.

they went ah it's been put on hold and here's an actual screenshot that I got of the their their ordering system at the time and sure enough it was put it was on hold and they went oh we think this might be well I don't know lettuce I don't remember the details but anyway let us you know Check! So they went away and checked it and said oh yeah you will automatically put on hold because your name David Jones not my full name, not my three word fault, not my middle name and it just my name. David Jones there it is. Order placed by David Jones was on a US government watch list and I and my order was automatically flagged and put on hold until they could clear it and I thought you've got to be kidding David Jones how many David Joneses are there in the you know, like it? So anyway, that was just like ridiculously mind-blowing in its own right. And by the way, the CEO of all the Managing Director or whoever it was of Element 40 in Australia actually confirmed that they do actually check orders against this US Government Watch list.

And as I wrote on my blog post here, let me get this straight: an Australian subsidiary of a UK parent company listed on the UK Stock Exchange has an ordering system that automatically matches generic names against the US government watch list for parts that most likely don't weren't manufactured in the U.s. that are stopped in Australia for an Australian customer and they still have to flag it against the watch list. like oh, why? this is the overreaching of the US government like the U.s. is not involved at all in any of this and yet my name was on a US government watch list or at least David Jones's IDI That brings me to anyway.

that was a bit of history from 2014 and by the way, that was as far as I know, they're probably still doing this and they said oh yeah, we just manually clear it anyway. whatever. but it just happened to me again, but not element14. Turner Digi-key I Ordered some digi-key parts are for my new micro current and I had them instead of being shipped to me I have them shipped directly to my assembler here in Australia because I get them assembled locally here so there's no point double handling parts, get them automatically shipped.

So I put the adjure the name who shall remain anonymous I've plated out here of my assembler and here's the email. They just got the name blank on your sales order is a close match to a U.s. denied party. This is it.

A pro like this. So effectively the same thing your watchlist, denied party list or whatever it's a I believe it's the same system that's in place here. Please provide the full name, date of birth, and year of birth of blank as it appears on a government-issued identification card. This information is for internal use only.

We'll make a note of the information on your record for our future reference. In order to having to contact you for this information, we'll keep the information confidential it and well write. You'll keep it confidential, but why the hell are you like doing this for like parts exported to a stronger. This is ridiculous.

Unbelievable. Anyway, I actually checked like it's not him like it's not Joe Bloggs name the name is kind of, you know Spanish mix in the Mexican II type name. sorry to the person involved here I don't know your you know background but it's like you know it's a very common sort of Mexican name or whatever. something like that.

but anyway like but it's not like you know a summer bin Laden Mohammad Right, It's like even if it was like like orders from DGK should not be held from like this generic names. this is not the person's full name. They haven't done a cross-match they're just doing generic. You know, first name, last name and it's like a you know I actually checked how many of these this full name is in the US.

There's over 2300 of them. not as common as David Jones but like it's not exactly a unique name. so it's like potentially 2300 other people would be caught in this same. I Unbelievable I Have not had this before, but I did order under a Maya strain and usually I order under my Digi-key US account this time I ordered for some reason under my Australian U.s.

account. So I'm not sure if I've done that before for my local supplier, but anyway is complete and utter overreaching government and like Digi-key will come out in defense. Well we have to do. It's a government requirement.

Well how do you screw you? Screw the US government, Screw the whole system. It's ridiculous. Anyway, end of rant. If you've been caught up in this sort of before, then please leave it in the comments down below if you and comment away.

If you think this is right, you know it like should they cross reference generic names like this and for parts that are being exported to Australia and we discuss get in the comments catch you next time.