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Specifically, according to the Commissioner's office, Facebook has agreed to do the following:


• Retrofit its application platform in a way that will prevent any application from accessing information until it obtains express consent for each category of personal information. Users adding an application will be advised that the application wants access to specific categories of information. They will be able to control which categories of information an application is permitted to access. There will also be a link to a statement by the developer to explain how it will use the data.
• Make it clear to users that they have the option of either deactivating their account or deleting their account, a distinction that will be explained in Facebook's privacy policy. Under the current policy, when users want to close their accounts, the information still remains live in Facebook's own databases. That will change when an account is deleted under the new policy.

Information overload, challenges of evaluating quality, and the opportunity to benefit from experiences of others have spurred the development of reputation systems. Most Internet sites which mediate between large numbers of people use some form of reputation mechanism: Slashdot, eBay, ePinions, Amazon, and Google all make use of collaborative filtering, recommender systems, or shared judgements of quality.

But we suggest the potential utility of reputation services is far greater, touching nearly every aspect of society. By leveraging our limited and local human judgement power with collective networked filtering, it is possible to promote an interconnected ecology of socially beneficial reputation systems — to restrain the baser side of human nature, while unleashing positive social changes and enabling the realization of ever higher goals.

The result was a nice discussion from which the following elements struck me:



• Staying in touch with colleagues can be facilitated using virtual worlds however currently it cannot complete replace face to face contact. For example, drinking coffee at a coffee corner is still very valuable. Maybe a good virtual coffee machine could be a way to go.
• Choosing (remote) team members using virtual worlds could become more objective as politics and personal aspects play a lesser role.
• Virtual worlds (including avatars) could become a intuitive graphical interface on top of the resources of a worker.
• A lot of workers use tools with a lot of (unintuitive) features (e.g. email), virtual worlds could provide a intuitive interface that discloses all these features in a more natural way, after a learning curve has been taken.
• Not all tasks of a knowledge worker may be suitable to perform in a virtual world (e.g. editing excel).
• The more important decisions become, the more face to face contact is needed to also grasp indirect communication aspects (e.g. body language). Current virtual worlds are less suitable to grasp indirect communications and hence may be less suitable for very important/delicate decisions.

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