Abstract
Providing information about other users and their activites is a central
function of many collaborative applications. The data that provide
this "presence awareness" are usually automatically generated and
highly dynamic. For example, services such as AOL Instant Messenger
allow users to observe the status of one another and to initiate
and participate in chat sessions. As such services become more powerful,
privacy and security issues regarding access to sensitive user data
become critical. Two key software engineering challenges arise in
this context:
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