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Rich presence is an enhanced form of presence awareness in which participants can determine if other users are online and if so, observe to a limited extent what they are doing and how they are doing it.
Basic presence services divulge only the availability and location of another user's computing device. Rich presence goes further; willing subscribers can let others know their device type, specifications, operating system, local time, personal messages, current employer or client and the level of privacy desired.
Rich presence does not allow the transmission of sensitive data that could be used to harm or inconvenience the identified user. Such information may include criminal data, medical data, bank account information, tax records, Social Security numbers and unpublished phone
numbers. In addition to these taboos, some of which may be dictated by local, state or federal law, users can add their own restrictions to ensure that their privacy or security is not compromised.
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Last updated on: May 15, 2008
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