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Unmasking Performance Gaps: A Comparative Study of Human Anonymization and Its Effects on Video Anomaly Detection
Sara Abdulaziz, Egor Bondarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14083

Unmasking Performance Gaps: A Comparative Study of Human Anonymization and Its Effects on Video Anomaly Detection
Advancements in deep learning have improved anomaly detection in surveillance videos, yet they raise urgent privacy concerns due to the collection of sensitive human data. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of anomaly detection performance under four human anonymization techniques, including blurring, masking, encryption, and avatar replacement, applied to the UCF-Crime dataset. We evaluate four anomaly detection methods, MGFN, UR-DMU, BN-WVAD, and PEL4VAD, on the anonymized UCF…

Any-to-any Speaker Attribute Perturbation for Asynchronous Voice Anonymization
Liping Chen, Chenyang Guo, Rui Wang, Kong Aik Lee, Zhenhua Ling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15565 h…

Any-to-any Speaker Attribute Perturbation for Asynchronous Voice Anonymization
Speaker attribute perturbation offers a feasible approach to asynchronous voice anonymization by employing adversarially perturbed speech as anonymized output. In order to enhance the identity unlinkability among anonymized utterances from the same original speaker, the targeted attack training strategy is usually applied to anonymize the utterances to a common designated speaker. However, this strategy may violate the privacy of the designated speaker who is an actual speaker. To mitigate this…

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#Amazon has kept pushing back the date when they say they will enable CDK CLI anonymous telemetry collection. Current enable date is Oct 1, 2025.
Lots of comments suggesting it should be an opt-in, not opt-out.
https://git…

❗ NOTICE: CDK CLI will begin to collect anonymous telemetry data on or after Oct 1st, 2025 · Issue #34892 · aws/aws-cdk
Status In-Progress. Doc page on CLI Telemetry: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/cli-telemetry.html Last communication on 8/29/25: Hi all, I'm updating the launch date on this thread to say ...

Guess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.
And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.
Blocked right back, asshole.
(His post was in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419489536063)
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email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Der Hochmut von Dudes, die mit unterkomplexen Behauptungen in die Mentions sliden und dann als Abschluss einer kurzen und unerfreulichen Diskussion noch denken, man würde ja lediglich ihre grenzenlosen Weisheiten nicht annehmen wollen, ist immer wieder erstaunlich.

Thirteen newsroom leaders and ethicists discuss elements of journalistic ethics, including dealing with AI, anonymous leaks, bias, lies, and audience needs (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/thirteen-journ

Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics 
We asked newsroom leaders and ethicists what they’re keeping or changing in an era of Trump, “fake news,” AI, and industry decline.

CBP and ICE Nazis are so toxic that even news stories where they're a victim continue to maintain their anonymity. https://masto.nyc/@EthanHarp/114887249547720720

Exploiting Context-dependent Duration Features for Voice Anonymization Attack Systems
Natalia Tomashenko, Emmanuel Vincent, Marc Tommasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15214

Exploiting Context-dependent Duration Features for Voice Anonymization Attack Systems
The temporal dynamics of speech, encompassing variations in rhythm, intonation, and speaking rate, contain important and unique information about speaker identity. This paper proposes a new method for representing speaker characteristics by extracting context-dependent duration embeddings from speech temporal dynamics. We develop novel attack models using these representations and analyze the potential vulnerabilities in speaker verification and voice anonymization systems.The experimental resu…