[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

Steven Livingstone-Perez weblivz at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 29 21:51:37 UTC 2008


Yes, and perhaps to labor the point slightly, Yahoo will know the preferred
language of that users email (identifier).

Would you see this as a major privacy issue were I to enter
"steven at yahoo.com" and you present my UI in English irrespective of me being
logged in? Or in my wife's case she enters "stevenswife at yahoo.com" and she
get's the UI in Spanish?

And we're on holiday in a web café in France.


-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Tom [mailto:atom at yahoo-inc.com] 
Sent: 29 October 2008 21:37
To: Martin Atkins; Steven Livingstone-Perez; 'OpenID List'
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

Yes, the OP identifier "yahoo.com" is not sufficient to determine the 
user's language, and a lot of our users travel internationally and use 
internet cafes. This is the primary reason why we'd prefer that the RP 
pass us a *hint* as to the user's language preference, rather than 
relying on the HTTP Accept-Language header.

Allen


Martin Atkins wrote:
>
> Most people use generic email domains like hotmail.com which aren't so 
> great as a basis for this.  I certainly can't guess where *you're* from 
> from your email address.
>
>   





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