Re: [OpenID] OpenID and SSO

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Dick Hardt <dick <at> sxip.com> wrote:
> I think the contractual and privacy issues will require a click to
> login. EU and Canadian privacy laws require the user to have consented
> to acquiring personal information. Similar to the EULA licenses users
> have to actively  do something with.
>
> Since it is impossible to know how the user truly arrived at a page,
> and users can arrive at a page without having actively chose to, the
> site needs the user to actively do something to acknowledge they want
> to share information and  not be pseudonymous.

Good points. I had not considered those.

Does anyone have links or further info related to the potential
legislation Dick mentions?

Hans