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A dangerous shift is happening online.
All around the world, governments are quietly rewriting the rules of internet access.
Soon, privacy and anonymity online may become relics of the past.
The UK’s newly enacted Online Safety Act marks a fundamental shift.
You now need to verify your identity simply to watch a video, visit a website, or share your thoughts.
The Act mandates strict age verification and identity checks for websites and platforms considered to ho…

Show Your Papers: The Internet Is About to Change Forever — Ludlow Institute
A crackdown sweeping the globe is replacing the free internet with government surveillance

Mapping Toxic Comments Across Demographics: A Dataset from German Public Broadcasting
Jan Fillies, Michael Peter Hoffmann, Rebecca Reichel, Roman Salzwedel, Sven Bodemer, Adrian Paschke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21084

Mapping Toxic Comments Across Demographics: A Dataset from German Public Broadcasting
A lack of demographic context in existing toxic speech datasets limits our understanding of how different age groups communicate online. In collaboration with funk, a German public service content network, this research introduces the first large-scale German dataset annotated for toxicity and enriched with platform-provided age estimates. The dataset includes 3,024 human-annotated and 30,024 LLM-annotated anonymized comments from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. To ensure relevance, comments we…

Plane has been spotted near Trenton NJ
“First in Playbook: An anonymous group of self-described democracy advocates will fly planes with banners that say “mess with Texas” tomorrow over blue state capital cities: Albany, Annapolis, Augusta, Trenton, Springfield and Sacramento, according to a person briefed on the matter.”

This piece came out a month ago and yet this is the first time I have seen it....
"US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza"
https://apnews.com/article/palestinian

Two US contractors describe chaos and gunfire as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press. Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. The contractor who provided t…

Nearly 200 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) signed an extraordinary letter sent to Congress on August 25,
denouncing the current administration’s erosion of their work
and warning that it risks the occurrence of another Hurricane Katrina-sized disaster.
More than 30 provided their names; the rest signed anonymously.
Named the "Katrina Declaration",
the letter was one of the most powerful written so far by beleaguered federal …

FEMA Employees Speak Out After Attacks on Workers Warning of Looming Disaster
“The danger posed to our collective communities … is very real,” said one employee who signed a public letter.

Protecting participants or population? Comparison of k-anonymous Origin-Destination matrices
Pietro Armenante, Kai Huang, Nikhil Jha, Luca Vassio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12950

Protecting participants or population? Comparison of k-anonymous Origin-Destination matrices
Origin-Destination (OD) matrices are a core component of research on users' mobility and summarize how individuals move between geographical regions. These regions should be small enough to be representative of user mobility, without incurring substantial privacy risks. There are two added values of the NetMob2025 challenge dataset. Firstly, the data is extensive and contains a lot of socio-demographic information that can be used to create multiple OD matrices, based on the segments of the pop…