[OpenID] EU regulators call for tighter privacy provisions onOpenID, Facebook (U)

[Allen Tom]

Hi Noel,

Thanks for sending the link to your blog post.

Given that many people already have multiple email addresses for 
different uses and personas, is it really necessary for OpenID Providers 
to give users the option of using different OpenIDs when using the same 
account to sign into different websties?

Users who already understand the concept of having multiple accounts for 
different purposes can just use different accounts for each persona 
(perhaps even using different OPs). OpenID enabled accounts are freely 
and easily available from many major identity providers, and encouraging 
users who do not want their identities correlated across multiple 
websites to just use a different account is probably a lot safer from a 
security and privacy perspective than expecting users to use a single 
account with a single OP, with multiple OpenIDs.

Allen



Dickover, Noel, CTR, NII/DoD-CIO wrote:
> I wrote a blog post on my thoughts for Privacy as it affects Open
> Government initiatives, and how OpenID could potentially help in the
> future.  They liked it enough that they asked to repost it on the
> PrivacyDC blog.  The link is here if anyone wants to give me some
> thoughts on it:
>
> http://privacycamp.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/gov2-0-privacy-issues-for-pr
> ivacycampdc/
>
>