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In 2018, an #anonymous Trump administration official delivered a stark warning about the threat he said the president posed with his erratic behavior.
The author was later revealed to be #Miles #Taylor.
When Trump returned…

Miles Taylor fights Trump’s order targeting him, calling it ‘an attack on free speech’
In 2018, an anonymous Trump administration official delivered a stark warning about the threat he said the president posed with his erratic behavior. The author was later revealed to be Miles Taylor. When Trump returned to office, he claimed Taylor’s actions could be treasonous and ordered DHS and other agencies to launch an investigation. Taylor joined Amna Nawaz to discuss his legal response.

Hello, won't you tell me your name?: Investigating Anonymity Abuse in IPFS
Christos Karapapas, Iakovos Pittaras, George C. Polyzos, Constantinos Patsakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04307

Hello, won't you tell me your name?: Investigating Anonymity Abuse in IPFS
The InterPlanetary File System~(IPFS) offers a decentralized approach to file storage and sharing, promising resilience and efficiency while also realizing the Web3 paradigm. Simultaneously, the offered anonymity raises significant questions about potential misuse. In this study, we explore methods that malicious actors can exploit IPFS to upload and disseminate harmful content while remaining anonymous. We evaluate the role of pinning services and public gateways, identifying their capabilitie…

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00100 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targeting this population have received little attention. In this study, we seek to bridge this gap, and establish a baseline for the use of voice anonymization techniques designed for adult speech when applied to children's voices. Such an evaluation is essential, as children's speech presents a distinct set of challenge…

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.

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…

Cards on deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy
depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape,
a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.

Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said.
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Cards in deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Trump has a large stack of executive orders prepared and ready — some written before he took office — that he can release whenever the mood strikes.

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

Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/

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

In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat,
an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading
“An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.”
Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer,
the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism,
far from improving the world,
was actually responsible for most of its ills.
That his bien-pensant re…

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
A Profile of Curtis Yarvin, the right-wing thinker behind the Substack “Gray Mirror,” who has been embraced by J. D. Vance, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and other supporters of Donald Trump. Ava Kofman reports.