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Re: Why Not Make OpenID the Law?

Kiran — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:46:34 -0000

It has both pros and cons. Everyone knows about benefits but i m little concern about my privacy. Certainly i would not like to have all my internet activity logged at one place. It will be easy for someone to get enough information about your life style and yourself. There are lot more chance of privacy exploitation.......

Re: Why Not Make OpenID the Law?

Neil — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:09:05 -0000

Very topical, Nick. Government control of OpenID has crossed my mind serveral times, but being a British citizen I tend to shiver every time it does.

You may have heard about a UK government employee attempting to post a CD with the personal identities of 25 million people, and the postal service subsequently losing the CD. If the government is allowing incidents like that to happen, I'd hate for them to have control over something that the experts are already handling, i.e. Mark Zuckerberg, Simon Willison, Data Portability etc.

What would a government really add to the equation? More paperwork and bureaucracy?

Re: Why Not Make OpenID the Law?

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:01:25 -0000

@Tim, that's pretty funny. I think that all of us fit into the group of those that are overwhelmed with the amount of stuff we are being solicited. Perhaps we can build a tool to manage that as well :)

Re: Why Not Make OpenID the Law?

Tim Courtney — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:58:19 -0000

With that I want a central place to manage all of my subscriptions to anything related to my email address, and postal address for that matter. With a central identity manager, I want control over who sends me solicitations for whatever, period.

I've actually kicked this idea around a little as a business, though haven't been serious enough about it as it looks F/T and I'm not looking to make that kind of jump right now.

And now that I've subscribed to BusinessWeek, The Economist, Wired, and FastCompany (yay frequent flier miles), I'm getting solicitations for everything, including timeshares. Ugg.

Re: Why Not Make OpenID the Law?

Jonathan Kleiman — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:57:09 -0000

It's a slippery slope. Then when an where the government steps in online is only a matter of degree, instead of a matter of the nature of the subject matter.

And government intervention toward openness is not openness at all.