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Extension of Spatial k-Anonymity: New Metrics for Assessing the Anonymity of Geomasked Data Considering Realistic Attack Scenarios
Simon Cremer, Lydia Jehmlich, Rainer Lenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07505

Extension of Spatial k-Anonymity: New Metrics for Assessing the Anonymity of Geomasked Data Considering Realistic Attack Scenarios
Spatial data are gaining increasing importance in many areas of research. Particularly spatial health data are becoming increasingly important for medical research, for example, to better understand relationships between environmental factors and disease patterns. However, their use is often restricted by legal data protection regulations, since georeferenced personal information carries a high risk of re-identification of individuals. To address this issue, what are called geomasking methods a…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Czesław Niemen:
🎵 Alter ego
#CzesławNiemen
https://open.spotify.com/track/2R2xImV9u3e4kG4dENQ5aB

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

🕹️ Interview: The First Descendant Director on the Issues with the Game And How They're Fixing Them
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-09-27/the-first-descendant-director-on-th…

Interview: The First Descendant Director on the Issues with the Game And How They're Fixing Them
We sat down with Director Min Seok Joo at Tokyo Game Show 2025 to talk frankly about the issues currently facing the game and their plans to overcome them.

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

»Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users:
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come. Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site.«
Welcome to the real world even if it's not amysant. Security also has something to do with anonymization.
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Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.

(Soundtrack of the Mighty Mouse theme, but somehow janky: “Here I come to save the day!”)
Thankfully, the United States has only ever had good experiences deploying troops to the Middle East.
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https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaz

US sending about 200 troops to monitor Gaza ceasefire deal
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players. That's according to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that weren't authorized for release. They said Thursday that U.S. Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination center” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow…

Habe früher mal einige der philosophischen Texte von Jean-Yves Girard gelesen. Verstanden habe ich wenig, aber ich fand sie als Aneinanderreihung lustiger Invektiven immer ganz unterhaltsam.

»Sicher und anonym surfen — So werden Sie (fast) unsichtbar im Netz:
Sie wollen sicher und anonym surfen? Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie das geht - zumindest bis zu einem gewissen Grad«
Dieser Artikel ist vor allem mMn Werbung aber doch mal eine Einführung um anonymer im Web sich zu bewegen. Für welche die dies neu ist sicherlich ein paar Hinweise und für Fragen soll sich niemensch schämen aber sich auch nicht gleich allwissend fühlen.
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Sicher und anonym surfen: So werden Sie (fast) unsichtbar im Netz
Sie wollen sicher und anonym surfen? Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie das geht – zumindest bis zu einem gewissen Grad.