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“Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex” An interview on reconstruction risks by @…: https://www.

Interview: On data protection risks with medical research data
Disease combinations are often unique – anonymization of health data is therefore particularly complex. An interview on reconstruction risks.

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars.
In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves.
There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents o…

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11299

How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Privacy models were introduced in privacy-preserving data publishing and statistical disclosure control with the promise to end the need for costly empirical assessment of disclosure risk. We examine how well this promise is kept by the main privacy models. We find they may fail to provide adequate protection guarantees because of problems in their definition or incur unacceptable trade-offs between privacy protection and utility preservation. Specifically, k-anonymity may not entirely exclude …

“It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,”
Wrong. EVERYONE who was paying attention anticipated it... in 2017.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable…

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump Is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

It better be fragrance free. I didn't know anyone added perfume to ammonium fluoride...

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT user logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news outlets (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/o…

A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT user logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news outlets (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/o…

This young producer is a friend of mine, and has finally been persuaded to release his very good materials. :) [albeit in as low-key, anonymous as possible a way, it seems. 😄]
I find it really hallucinogenic and special - in a super fragmented, "implied music"-but-still-groove-based kind of way.
https://www.youtube.…

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
Ren\'e Mayrhofer, Anja Lehmann, abhi shelat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05419 https://

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
This paper describes pseudonyms for the upcoming European Identity Wallet (EUDIW) architecture from both a cryptographic and an implementation perspective. Its main goal is to provide technical insights into the achievable properties and cryptographic realizations. In particular, we (1) outline the security and privacy requirements of EUDI pseudonyms as the basis for building consensus on the cross-country decision maker level; (2) sketch an abstract cryptographic protocol that fulfills these r…