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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…

Erneut Bericht über iPhone-17-Preiserhöhung
Ein bekannter Analyst bekräftigt Annahmen, dass Apple seine neuesten Smartphones verteuert. Dabei fallen für indische Geräte keine Zölle an.
https://www.

Use Cases for Voice Anonymization
Sarina Meyer, Ngoc Thang Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06356 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06356

Use Cases for Voice Anonymization
The performance of a voice anonymization system is typically measured according to its ability to hide the speaker's identity and keep the data's utility for downstream tasks. This means that the requirements the anonymization should fulfill depend on the context in which it is used and may differ greatly between use cases. However, these use cases are rarely specified in research papers. In this paper, we study the implications of use case-specific requirements on the design of voice anonymiza…

The first tragedy here is that we’ve all even heard of Charlie Kirk in the first place.
That dude should have spent his long useless life holed up in his basement ostracized by his neighbors, shunned, shamed, legally constrained, and anonymous to almost everyone.
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Wrote up a nice little macro in @… to illustrate "anonymous recursive functions" Š la PowerShell.
https://github.com/shriram/anonymous-r

GitHub - shriram/anonymous-recursive-function: Anonymous recursive functions in Racket
Anonymous recursive functions in Racket. Contribute to shriram/anonymous-recursive-function development by creating an account on GitHub.

Und wieso vermischen sie das mit der E-ID beim #SRF
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/elektronische-identitaet-e-id-mit-dem-a…

E-ID: Das anonyme Surfen ist bedroht – durch Altersverifikation im Netz.
Viele Länder machen Altersverifikation im Netz zur Pflicht. Ein Trend, dem sich die Schweiz nicht entzieht.

»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.

When gunfire pelted the Atlanta-based headquarters of the CDC yesterday, hundreds of employees were inside the campus’s buildings.
The experience was terrifying.
But some of the employees were not particularly shocked.
“I’m actually surprised it didn’t happen sooner,”
a nearly 20-year veteran of the agency told me.
(She, like others I spoke with for this article, requested anonymity out of fear of losing her job.)
This was, in one sense, the first attack o…

CDC Staffers Saw the Violence Coming
CDC staffers saw the violence coming.

(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…