[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

Fair Enough Martin. I do agree with you.... I just remember when I lived in
Chile and was learning Spanish that every time I navigated a site I'd get
back to Spanish from browsing in English. I would have taken any solution at
that point!

I guess my example may be this ....

... from the .co.uk in your domain I guess you are from the UK and
"degeneration" implies an English word to me and hence I would guess you
speak English.

I guess it depends what significance people place on the semantics of the
OpenID.

Perhaps it could be an option to share at the OP.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Atkins [mailto:mart at degeneration.co.uk] 
Sent: 29 October 2008 21:14
To: Steven Livingstone-Perez
Cc: 'Eric Sachs'; 'OpenID List'
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

Steven Livingstone-Perez wrote:
> 
> Yes, the privacy issue is the main one that screams out at me.
> 
> The question is whether you think you gain anything from knowing this.
> Perhaps you do and it's a screwed up solution. I wouldn't mind, perhaps
many
> would.
> 

Since I'm no expert on the privacy needs of people around the world, I 
tend to just assume that anything you share will impact someone, so if 
you can avoid sharing something then you should.

With language specifically, if you know someone's primary language you 
can often make a good guess about their nationality or current country 
of residence, which could cause various problems for some people in 
certain contexts.