[OpenID] OpenID on TechCrunch forums
Paul Madsen
paulmadsen at rogers.com
Mon Jan 8 16:38:29 UTC 2007
Providers will almost certainly *gather* this information, the important
question is what they do with it, i.e. share, sell, aggregate.
paul
Bob Wyman wrote:
> One of the comments[1] to Sokullu and McManus' original post called
> for OpenID sites to accept greater privacy guarantees than currently
> provided.
>
> Specifically, the commenter is concerned that information about the
> frequency of authentication at various sites. Stoicho asks: "How can
> you trust a 3rd party [who] sees how frequent your users logged in,
> how many users your application has?"
>
> Stoicho asks that sites make the following pledge: Is this reasonable?
>
> "WE WILL NEVER EVER NEVER EVER GATHER ANY INFORMATION, REGARTHLESS HOW
> MANY, OR HOW FREQUENT YOUR APPLICATION USERS USED THEIR OPENID ACCOUNTS."
>
> bob wyman
>
> [1]
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_vs_bigco.php#comment-8274
> <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_vs_bigco.php#comment-8274>
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