The line-up for the conference looks really good. Many very smart people.

To me, any fair reputation system online has to let people inspect the data the system has on them. We can't let black box reputation ratings like FICO credit scores be our model for online reputation systems. We have to know what data the system has on us, and how it's being crunched.

Moreover, the only way to advance real competition among platforms is to give people a right to exit--which necessarily involves the right to transfer information that's been generated regarding their online life.

I think it's a shoddy report, and I critique it here:
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/09/black_box_agenc.html