Lawson English wrote: > Jo Grant wrote: > >> By what mechanism is the translation done? If it's not local, what is >> the transport mechanism to and from the translation service? >> I've done a lot of work on chat translation and you can't forget the >> privacy concerns. Not that Second Life chat is secure anyway, but >> people are going to want to know who their chats are being sent to. If >> it's going up and down the line via https, or some other secured >> transfer protocol, that's one step. However, a picky person would say >> that if the service logs the text submitted for translation (which >> Google does, to build up it's dictionaries) than it is a violation of >> the terms of service. >> Just saying... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jo /Jaymin Carthage >> >> > > Gack my suggestion for "any" url merely compounds the issue you bring > up. Because it would let someone forward all private/group IM to some > arbitrary URL as part of the built-in GUI of the viewer. This violates > the obvious rule of thumb that you cite to not provide a GUI that > directly violates the TOS. > Even if it isn't an _arbitrary_ URL, hasn't this feature crossed that line already?
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