[OpenID] Anti-OpenID Campaign in Germany

[Johannes Ernst]

There are some serious political plans in Germany to *require* each  
ISP to store
  - browsing history of their customers
  - e-mail history
for 6 months, starting in 2008.

http://www.n-tv.de/794665.html for the German speakers.

Whatever data OpenID might be leaking is dwarfed by this ... and  
whatever we might be able to do technically in an OpenID context is  
completely moot if this legal initiative passes.


On Apr 25, 2007, at 3:24, Lukas Rosenstock wrote:

> Am 25.04.2007, 11:07 Uhr, schrieb Recordon, David  
> <drecordon at verisign.com>:
>
>> Seems there are some campaigns
>> (http://www.deltalima2.de/aktion-openid-nein-danke --
>> http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F% 
>> 2Fwww.deltalima2.de%2
>> Faktion-openid-nein-danke&langpair=de% 
>> 7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=
>> %2Flanguage_tools) against OpenID in parts of Europe which I think we
>> need to take a look at.
>
> As a native German speaker, I have looked at this campaign (it's  
> only one,
> not "some") and also the reactions, for example the discussion at
> http://openidgermany.de/2007/04/09/openid-nein-danke/.
> I know that Germans seem to be more critical about new  
> technologies, they
> tend to see only the negative side of things rather than the positive
> aspects. It was sure that, if there was major protest against  
> OpenID, it
> had to be a German who says it!
> Anyway, that guy who has this blog at deltalima2.de (where he lately
> posted mainly about privacy and protests against
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention) and  
> owns
> openid-neindanke.de (OpenID, no, thanks! - For security and  
> independence.)
> seems to be quite alone with his opinions. There are other people who
> criticize OpenID - which is nothing bad, it has its problems - but  
> from a
> neutral point of view, discussing both sides. He accuses "us" to  
> ignore or
> play down the negative sides, but he does the same with the  
> positive sides.
> People from the German OpenID community deal with him already, e.g. in
> this blog posting on openidgermany.de and he said another OpenID  
> provider
> already contacted him, so I wouldn't worry too much. However, we  
> should
> still work on communicating the advantages of OpenID, especially  
> what it
> can do for privacy, and for the future try to make OpenID better.
>
>
> -- 
> Lukas Rosenstock
> Identity 2.0 Europe :: http://identity20.eu/
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