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As we say here in Massachusetts - "shockah"
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

An Algorithmic Pipeline for GDPR-Compliant Healthcare Data Anonymisation: Moving Toward Standardisation
Hamza Khan, Lore Menten, Liesbet M. Peeters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02942

An Algorithmic Pipeline for GDPR-Compliant Healthcare Data Anonymisation: Moving Toward Standardisation
High-quality real-world data (RWD) is essential for healthcare but must be transformed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPRs broad definitions of quasi-identifiers (QIDs) and sensitive attributes (SAs) complicate implementation. We aim to standardise RWD anonymisation for GDPR compliance while preserving data utility by introducing an algorithmic method to identify QIDs and SAs and evaluate utility in anonymised datasets. We conducted a systematic literature review…

Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eing…

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

#ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents,
⭐️has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. App Store rankings.
The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there.
Most of ICEBlock’s users
— about 20,000
— are in Los Angeles,
where ICE ra…

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism | TechCrunch
The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. Attorney General.

Anonymisierendes Linux: Tails 6.17 bringt kleine Aktualisierungen
Die Entwickler haben für Tails 6.17 lediglich kleine Aktualisierungen anstatt großer neuer Features in petto.
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ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p144#a250701p144

A Transformer-Based Neural Network for Optimal Deterministic-Allocation and Anonymous Joint Auction Design
Zhen Zhang, Luowen Liu, Wanzhi Zhang, Zitian Guo, Kun Huang, Qi Qi, Qiang Liu, Xingxing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02435

A Transformer-Based Neural Network for Optimal Deterministic-Allocation and Anonymous Joint Auction Design
With the advancement of machine learning, an increasing number of studies are employing automated mechanism design (AMD) methods for optimal auction design. However, all previous AMD architectures designed to generate optimal mechanisms that satisfy near dominant strategy incentive compatibility (DSIC) fail to achieve deterministic allocation, and some also lack anonymity, thereby impacting the efficiency and fairness of advertising allocation. This has resulted in a notable discrepancy between…

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

First Steps Towards Voice Anonymization for Code-Switching Speech
Sarina Meyer, Ekaterina Kolos, Ngoc Thang Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01765 https://

First Steps Towards Voice Anonymization for Code-Switching Speech
The goal of voice anonymization is to modify an audio such that the true identity of its speaker is hidden. Research on this task is typically limited to the same English read speech datasets, thus the efficacy of current methods for other types of speech data remains unknown. In this paper, we present the first investigation of voice anonymization for the multilingual phenomenon of code-switching speech. We prepare two corpora for this task and propose adaptations to a multilingual anonymizati…

Run by an anonymous software engineer,
the twitter account
"Pentagon Pizza Report"
tracks Google data for pizzerias around the military complex in Arlington Virginia.
(Anonymized Google Maps data are aggregated from “timeline” or “location history” on phones, including visits made to the establishments.)
Often posting multiple times a day on X, PPR frequently singles out spikes in pizzeria activity,
-- allowing its 200,000-plus followers to dra…

Pentagon Pizza Report (@PenPizzaReport) on X
Pentagon Pizza Report: Open-source tracking of pizza spot activity around the Pentagon (and other places). Frequent-ish updates on where the lines are long.