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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.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…

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.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Anonymisierendes Linux: Notfall-Update Tails 7.4.1 erschienen

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/116171030059169579
TL; DR: Pseudoanonymised/anonymised data is bullshit.
Rule of thumb: pseudoanonymous data is just data that can be deanonymised when combined with other datasets with overlapping markers.
As…

Serwer. Again. 👏👏👏
❝Legal immunity plus anonymity equals impunity. It would be logical to think that [always being masked], agents could literally get away with murder.
…
People who are assured that they won’t face consequences for abusing power almost inevitably do so. One wonders if this is actually the government’s purpose in masking them.…The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things.❞
https://archive.ph/2026.02.02-201429/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/#selection-979.139-979.260

Analysis: since the end of 2025, Polymarket users have rarely bet large sums on US strikes the next day; before the Iran strikes, 150 accounts placed such bets (Amy Fan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/upshot/…

How Anonymous Bettors Cashed In on the Iran Strike, Just Hours Before It Happened
Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.

The Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies
turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports.
In several cases over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These subpoenas have also…

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.

39C3: Wie das quelloffene Bargeld GNU Taler den Praxistest besteht
Auf dem 39C3 zeigten Entwickler, wie sich das anonyme Bezahlsystem GNU Taler auf Events einsetzen lässt – ein Gegenentwurf zum digitalen Euro.

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The Department of Homeland Security
has been quietly demanding
tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration,
according to reports.
In several cases over recent months,
Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These s…

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch
The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts documenting ICE operations.