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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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Henry Purcell, Anonymous, The King's Consort, Gillian Fisher, Michael George, Nigel Short, Rogers Covey‐Crump, Evelyn Tubb, Charles Pott & James Bowman:
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Guess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.
And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.
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(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.

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
The Environmental Protection Agency has 💥ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all efforts to publish research,
according to two agency employees familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week
⚠️and instru…

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

Animania !
https://youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw?si=CC1RVjAncJVYxE2k

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.

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…