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0 pointsshuntress1y ago0 comments

The first bullet point on the /partners page of login.gov (regarding who should use it) says:

> You are part of a federal agency or a state, local, or territory government

I'm talking about a more generic service that any random industry system or individual can use. The way many websites use Google's OAuth without using really using Google's APIs. Things that just want someone else (Google) to handle asking for and authenticating a name/password.

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d1sxeyes1y ago

Not 100% sure how I feel about random companies being able to definitively identify me. I’m sure we’re drifting in that direction anyway, but it feels like it would negatively impact privacy online.

krisoft1y ago

> Not 100% sure how I feel about random companies being able to definitively identify me.

But that is not what we are talking about. It is not that you are browsing the web randomly and some random company identifies you as d1sxeyes.

It is that you can identify yourself towards any company if you choose to. Then you can decide if that is in your best interest or not.

shuntressOP1y ago

It also is not necessarily your actual ID. As far as the individual website needs to know, it could just be a random string of numbers and letters. As long as it's the same string each time they ask the authentication authority to confirm you.

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