@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFor your Friday evening reading pleasure lol
New US House privacy bills raise hard questions about enterprise data collection
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4163345/new-us-house-privacy-bills-raise-hard-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: very impressive with a dual-pixel system that allows users to toggle viewing angles to prevent side-peeking (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/884337/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-priv…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaContextualizing the Proposed SECURE Data Act in the State Privacy Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/contextualizing-the-proposed-secure-data-act-in-the-state-privacy-landscape/
@…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWait, the for-profit not-for-profit privacy champion funded by half-a-billion dollars a year from Google is doing this? Do you think their then-head of public policy was actually telling the truth when she told me “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company?” No, couldn’t possibly be. I’m sure there are some benefits of the doubt we could still dust off and send their way.
#Mozilla
@javi
Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!
As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come …
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeI do #privacy consulting for sex workers. This is very bad news. If you know anyone that's in that field, please let them know about this.
https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-ad
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeICYMI yesterday, my latest CSO piece outlines critical data collection issues that come up in two new federal privacy bills, including data minimization, AI profiling, vendor accountability, and controversial new rules around teen data.
Thanks to EPIC president Alan Butler for his insight.
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@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Librecast - Decentralisation and Privacy with Multicast»
Do any of you know this and use it? What is this good for and is it almost like the Gemini protocol?
🌐 https://librecast.net
:mastodon: @…
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaWhile the syllogism for "I have nothing to hide" is sound, it ultimately detracts from the argument of privacy as consent.
https://theprivacydad.com/the-best-version-of-i-have-nothing-to-hide/
@almad@fosstodon.orgOh this is excellent. Can LinkedIn be officially called a honeypot now?
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@cdarwin@c.im“A lot of what we think of as privacy protection isn’t so much like something that’s written in the law,”
says Karen Levy, a professor of information science at Cornell University.
“It just has to do with how hard or how expensive it is to learn stuff about people.”
When mobile phones became widespread, gathering data about people got much cheaper,
-- but making use of that data remained difficult.
Powerful LLMs could change that.
Worries over how LLMs …
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaPrivacy Protections Coming Sooner Rather Than Later to the Sooner State
https://fpf.org/blog/privacy-protections-coming-sooner-rather-than-later-to-the-sooner-state/
@…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPodcast: Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes) https://www.404media.co/podcast-privacy-under-pressure-with-harlo-holmes/
@servelan@newsie.socialHouse Republicans unveil data privacy law that would override state protections | The Record from Recorded Future News
https://therecord.media/house-republicans-unveil-data-privacy-law-override-state-measures
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDiscord pushes back global age verification rollout amid criticism, promises transparency
https://apnews.com/article/discord-global-age-verification-privacy-f508653aad57f9f1b45175acee1ebcde
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net📏 128,000-token context window — processes entire legal documents, long email threads or large codebases in a single pass. No need to chunk text before filtering. #privacy #DataEngineering
🛠️ Built for high-throughput workflows: CLI tool (opf), GPU & CPU support, interactive …
@kctipton@mas.to @Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung unveils the $1,299 Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display feature that limits the screen legibility, an all-new agentic AI, improved night mode, more (Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-hands-on-unpacked-2026/…
@marcel@waldvogel.family"Those who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it."
Among the "benefits" you get by installing Chronicle, according to OpenAI themselves:
"Before enabling, be aware that Chronicle uses rate limits quickly, increases risk of prompt injection, and stores memories unencrypted on your device."
What could possibly go wrong?
#Chronicle
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com~The Claude Desktop App installs its browser extension into 7 different browsers without consent automatically. This is very much not cool.~
Edit: I misread the article, and this is not what is happening. Instead, these files that are installed allow for easier installing of the actual browser extensions, which is much less evil. No browser extensions are automatically installed. Thanks to @…
@Xavier@infosec.exchange
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialA friend recently wrote me on Instagram that she can understand me, leaving the platform.
Her wishes / pain points:
* reduce my screentime
* get out of doomscrolling
* Not having to check every post whether it's AI generated (= Authenticity)
* funny cat videos
* book recommendations
Quite Fediverse ... what she doesn't mention: privacy, big tech, federation
And then I thought about the websites promoting the fediverse. Well - it's just a…
@ncoca@social.coop
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageBikelution: Federated Gradient-Boosting for Scalable Shared Micro-Mobility Demand Forecasting
Antonios Tziorvas, Andreas Tritsarolis, Yannis Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20671 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20671 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20671
arXiv:2602.20671v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid growth of dockless bike-sharing systems has generated massive spatio-temporal datasets useful for fleet allocation, congestion reduction, and sustainable mobility. Bike demand, however, depends on several external factors, making traditional time-series models insufficient. Centralized Machine Learning (CML) yields high-accuracy forecasts but raises privacy and bandwidth issues when data are distributed across edge devices. To overcome these limitations, we propose Bikelution, an efficient Federated Learning (FL) solution based on gradient-boosted trees that preserves privacy while delivering accurate mid-term demand forecasts up to six hours ahead. Experiments on three real-world BSS datasets show that Bikelution is comparable to its CML-based variant and outperforms the current state-of-the-art. The results highlight the feasibility of privacy-aware demand forecasting and outline the trade-offs between FL and CML approaches.
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@fgraver@hcommons.socialI Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
@frankel@mastodon.top
@seeingwithsound@mas.toMeta's smart glasses have even bigger privacy issues than we thought https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gear/a70782916/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-report-spring-2026/ "Meta sends footage recorded by its smart gla…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeInteresting release from OpenAI: Privacy Filter. A tiny (1.5B parameter) model to redact PII in unstructured text. Seems like it could be useful - and it’s open weights, so you can run it on your machine. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter
@publicvoit@graz.social#MyDeepGuide with some #privacy network tests on #epaper devices. He developed a test method and an interesting Python analysis/report workflow that is supposed to be published. 👍
First run:
@rettichschnidi@swiss.socialHeute ab 18:30 findet das #EmbeddedSoftwareMeetup zum Thema #HomeAssistant bei #SupercomputingSystems in
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/consumer-foc…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialThe Age-Verification Trap — Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection
Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: Societies are deciding it’s no longer kid stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use, exposure to harmful content, and mounting concerns about adolescent mental health. So, many propose to set a minimum age, usually 13 or 16.
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@vosje62@mastodon.nlBij de Volkskrant mag je geen vragen over privacy stellen... Je mag dan niet verder het contact formulier invullen en wprdt naar een hoop tekst doorverwezen...
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaPer un anno a Linate il nostro volto è stato un “passaporto”, ora sappiamo anche perché quel FaceBoarding fosse illecito
Il Garante della Privacy ha dichiarato illecito il FaceBoarding dell'aeroporto di Linate: dati biometrici centralizzati, scarso controllo degli utenti e consenso non davvero informato
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPowerSchool, Chicago Public Schools to settle student data privacy lawsuit for $17 million https://therecord.media/powerschool-cps-settle-proposed-class-action
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaAn Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI”
https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-geor…
@veit@mastodon.socialEU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: https://www.politico.eu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation (Tiffany Ng/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/they-built-privacy-tool-grapheneos-now-sworn…
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaSecurity: Learning the Language of Privacy by Matthew Plascencia
Watch now: https://youtu.be/qV5KVKQdCmI?si=imAhOc_xz9p-MfAn
🔒 Dive into the essentials of privacy and security in the open source world!
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza@… is on a roll!
https://ghost.thenewoil.org/critical-thinking-101/
@waidler@bayerwald.socialIch hatte noch Reserven auf einem meiner VPS-Server und habe dort die Foto-App Immich installiert. Bin ziemlich begeistert bis jetzt. Versuche gerade alle meine iCloud Fotos dorthin zu transferieren. Ein ziemlicher Akt, aber es wird langsam.
https://immich.app/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Most people do not expect Google to track their activities so pervasively.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/does-google-meet-its-users-expectations-around-consumer-privacy-this-ne…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine:
Back in March, Firefox 149 was released with many changes, like a free built-in VPN, a Split View that allows the loading of two pages side by side, and the XDG portal file picker as the new default on Linux.»
…or/and use and config the @… plugin for more security and privacy in Firefox.…
@arXiv_statML_bot@mastoxiv.pageGeometric Renyi Differential Privacy: Ricci Curvature Characterized by Heat Diffusion Mechanisms
Xiaotian Chang, Yangdi Jiang, Cyrus Mostajeran, Qirui Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20761
@mapto@qoto.orgThe privacy disaster of meta glasses...
but it is already around us with any camera-enabled device, such as phones and smart TVs
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everyt…
@mela@zusammenkunft.netSomething for my #TTRPG bubble - but not only the TTRPG bubble.
I'm the kind of person who really likes to have transcripts or summaries of TTRPG sessions, but also struggles with participating and taking notes at the same time.
LLM apps for creating automatic meeting transcripts looked really promising, but:
1. Are usually costly …
2. … create privacy concerns …
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlKijk hoe /e/OS mijn apparaat beschermt tegen datalekken!
Weten waarom trackers in apps veel impact kunnen hebben op je privacy en vrijheid? Lees onze Privacy Guide op https://e.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/murena_white_paper_privacy.pdf
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data" 😱 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGOP finalizing draft national privacy law that would preempt states (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/16/gop-national-privacy-law-technology-00876794
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p62#a260416p62
@johnleonard@mastodon.social @arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageOn Electric Vehicle Energy Demand Forecasting and the Effect of Federated Learning
Andreas Tritsarolis, Gil Sampaio, Nikos Pelekis, Yannis Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20782
arXiv:2602.20782v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The wide spread of new energy resources, smart devices, and demand side management strategies has motivated several analytics operations, from infrastructure load modeling to user behavior profiling. Energy Demand Forecasting (EDF) of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipments (EVSEs) is one of the most critical operations for ensuring efficient energy management and sustainability, since it enables utility providers to anticipate energy/power demand, optimize resource allocation, and implement proactive measures to improve grid reliability. However, accurate EDF is a challenging problem due to external factors, such as the varying user routines, weather conditions, driving behaviors, unknown state of charge, etc. Furthermore, as concerns and restrictions about privacy and sustainability have grown, training data has become increasingly fragmented, resulting in distributed datasets scattered across different data silos and/or edge devices, calling for federated learning solutions. In this paper, we investigate different well-established time series forecasting methodologies to address the EDF problem, from statistical methods (the ARIMA family) to traditional machine learning models (such as XGBoost) and deep neural networks (GRU and LSTM). We provide an overview of these methods through a performance comparison over four real-world EVSE datasets, evaluated under both centralized and federated learning paradigms, focusing on the trade-offs between forecasting fidelity, privacy preservation, and energy overheads. Our experimental results demonstrate, on the one hand, the superiority of gradient boosted trees (XGBoost) over statistical and NN-based models in both prediction accuracy and energy efficiency and, on the other hand, an insight that Federated Learning-enabled models balance these factors, offering a promising direction for decentralized energy demand forecasting.
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@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk#privacy #privacyNotIncluded
BBC News - We have more privacy controls yet less privacy than ever
https://www.bbc.…
@mnalis@mastodon.online#CoMaps is #OpenStreetMap based navigation app -- it is an #OrganicMaps fork made so it can be oriented towards community, privacy and
@stiefkind@mastodon.social»You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies. Not a single EU-based subprocessor in the chain.«
Somebody “validated” his LinkedIn profile and read the fine print afterwards: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedi
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialAn important recognition by the Scottish Government that the desire for personal information by public bodies and researchers, always for the greater good, does not trump privacy concerns around data collection.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3097zj50lyo
@metacurity@infosec.exchangePatient data changed as major NZ health app MediMap hacked
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587773/patient-data-changed-as-major-nz-health-app-medimap-hacked
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeWow. Our neighbors really want to learn about Internet privacy.
My local neighborhood group invited me to make a presentation on privacy at their monthly meeting. I was a little hesitant at first. I have done a lot of classes and seminars in corporate conference settings over the years. But these were my friends and neighbors and most of them are not technical in matters of security and privacy. I was not sure I could give a talk that wasn’t totally nerdy and boring. But I could see an…
@mia@hcommons.socialI Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over: 'I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over — even if it’s stored in Europe, even if I’m European, and possibly without ever telling me.
...know what you’re trading.'
@cdarwin@c.imDHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-th
@kctipton@mas.toPrivacy concerns surface as Las Cruces police ask residents to register security cameras https://cbs4local.com/newsletter-daily/privacy-concerns-surface-as-las-cruces-new-mexico-police-ask-resi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaNavigating Autonomy and Privacy in Emerging AgeTech: Insights from the FPF Roundtable
https://fpf.org/blog/navigating-autonomy-and-privacy-in-emerging-agetech-insights-from-the-fpf-roundtable/
@…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it#BloodInTheMachine is also an excellent book, btw. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGalaxy S26 Ultra: Samsung bestätigt neues Privacy-Feature
Samsung hat ein erstes Highlight-Feature für das Galaxy S26 gezeigt. Es soll den Bildschirminhalt vor fremden Blicken schützen.
https://www.
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialCan confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:
#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthro
@vosje62@mastodon.nlPrivacy-adviseur Binnenlandse Zaken: overname van DigiD bedreigt veiligheid van Nederland | de Volkskrant
#Solvinity #DigiD #DigitaleSoevereiniteit
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«#Proton CEO warns global #ageVerification push will mean "the death of anonymity #online"
Protecting children #online
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAmazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/
@kctipton@mas.toPrivacy Guides: Independent Privacy & Security Resources #privacy #recommendations
@frankel@mastodon.top @privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF Papers for Policymakers: Impactful Privacy and AI Scholarship for a Digital Future
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-papers-for-policymakers-impactful-privacy-and-ai-scholarship-for-a-digital-future/
@…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI love how easy Macs are to use ;)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/118449
@cdarwin@c.imConsider the Strongest Notification Protections for Your Secure Messaging Apps
Secure chat tools are designed to keep the content of the messages safe inside the app.
So, for secure chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal, that means the company that makes those apps cannot see the content of your messages,
and they’re only accessible on your and your recipients’ devices.
Once messages land on a device, it’s still important to consider some privacy precautions, particularly…
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaMeet Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), leading up to her keynote on Saturday at Southern California Linux Expo.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kimmcmahon-marketing_privac…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIEEE Spectrum: These earbuds have eyes https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-earbuds-smart-glasses-privacy "VueBuds integrate low-res cameras and visual AI as a smart glasses alternative"
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageProxyFL: A Proxy-Guided Framework for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
Duowen Chen, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21078
arXiv:2602.21078v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which exists both across clients and within clients. External heterogeneity refers to the data distribution discrepancy across different clients, while internal heterogeneity represents the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data within clients. Most FSSL methods typically design fixed or dynamic parameter aggregation strategies to collect client knowledge on the server (external) and / or filter out low-confidence unlabeled samples to reduce mistakes in local client (internal). But, the former is hard to precisely fit the ideal global distribution via direct weights, and the latter results in fewer data participation into FL training. To this end, we propose a proxy-guided framework called ProxyFL that focuses on simultaneously mitigating external and internal heterogeneity via a unified proxy. I.e., we consider the learnable weights of classifier as proxy to simulate the category distribution both locally and globally. For external, we explicitly optimize global proxy against outliers instead of direct weights; for internal, we re-include the discarded samples into training by a positive-negative proxy pool to mitigate the impact of potentially-incorrect pseudo-labels. Insight experiments & theoretical analysis show our significant performance and convergence in FSSL.
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@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSuch madness.
Palantir is to be granted access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data, in a deal that has prompted fresh concerns about the US AI company’s deepening reach into the British state.
https://www.theg…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalantir won a three-month, £30K /week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaThe Alabama Personal Data Protection Act Brings Consumer Privacy to the Heart of Dixie
https://fpf.org/blog/the-alabama-personal-data-protection-act-brings-consumer-privacy-to-the-heart-of-dixie/
@…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a "Zero-peeking privacy" toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/879652/samsung-ga…
@cdarwin@c.imIn a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight!
They are holding out for, at a minimum,
the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information collected under the mass spying program known as 702.
A reauthorization with virtually no changes was defeated because a core group of lawmakers held strong;
they know that peopl…
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaWhile the desktop experience has some room for improvement, the Ente Photos app on mobile is totally competitive with privacy-invasive alternatives.
https://theprivacydad.com/ente-photos-a-privacy-first-photo-app/
@…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDepartment of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-threshold-analysis-foia/
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[6/6]:
- Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu, Min-Hung Chen, Jan Kautz, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115898618760721320
- Universality of Many-body Projected Ensemble for Learning Quantum Data Distribution
Quoc Hoan Tran, Koki Chinzei, Yasuhiro Endo, Hirotaka Oshima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18637 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115967001797773134
- FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning
Haozheng Luo, Zhuolin Jiang, Md Zahid Hasan, Yan Chen, Soumalya Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19001 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115972068838908815
- Analysis of Shuffling Beyond Pure Local Differential Privacy
Shun Takagi, Seng Pei Liew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19154 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115971701218309765
- CryoLVM: Self-supervised Learning from Cryo-EM Density Maps with Large Vision Models
Weining Fu, Kai Shu, Kui Xu, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02620
- XtraLight-MedMamba for Classification of Neoplastic Tubular Adenomas
Sultana, Afsar, Rahu, Singh, Shula, Combs, Forchetti, Asari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04819
- Flow-Based Conformal Predictive Distributions
Trevor Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07633 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116045671088130364
- GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing
Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116046486984991360
- UI-Venus-1.5 Technical Report
Venus Team, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09082 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116050980295461008
- The Wisdom of Many Queries: Complexity-Diversity Principle for Dense Retriever Training
Xincan Feng, Noriki Nishida, Yusuke Sakai, Yuji Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116051022881293649
- Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem
Shahriar Golchin, Marc Wetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16729 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116101884238965526
- The Metaphysics We Train: A Heideggerian Reading of Machine Learning
Heman Shakeri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116125225694943789
- Skill-Inject: Measuring Agent Vulnerability to Skill File Attacks
David Schmotz, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Sahar Abdelnabi, Maksym Andriushchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20156 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116125330557447048
- A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
Maijunxian Wang, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20159 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116125664801070747
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@kctipton@mas.toDHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders | WIRED #foia
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF on the Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement Over Data (“SECURE Data”) Act
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-on-the-securing-and-establishing-consumer-uniform-rights-and-enf…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access "certain capabilities" (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/364509/claude-anthropic-government-id-kyc-privacy
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrivacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/19/ex-p…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaQ&A With FPF Vice President for U.S. Policy, Matthew Reisman
https://fpf.org/blog/qa-with-fpf-vice-president-for-u-s-policy-matthew-reisman/
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-p…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRing founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after a Super Bowl "Search Party" ad, calling it a "perfect storm" (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/ring-super-…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF Retrospective: U.S. Privacy Enforcement in 2025
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-retrospective-u-s-privacy-enforcement-in-2025/
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@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFuture of Privacy Forum to Honor Top Scholarship at Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Event
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-to-honor-top-scholarship-at-annual-privacy-papers-for-policy…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialClarifai says it has deleted 3M OkCupid user photos and facial-recognition models trained on them after the US FTC settled with OkCupid over privacy violations (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ai…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustralia's online age restrictions take effect, requiring platforms to verify users are 18 before they can access content including porn and R-rated games (Ahmed Yussuf/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/privacy-c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Privacy Display works well, meaningful camera upgrades, and sleeker than S25 Ultra, but still huge, expensive, and lacks Qi2 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/893936/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-review-show-of…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia announces NemoClaw, which combines the OpenClaw agent platform with components of Nvidia's Agent Toolkit to add privacy and security controls (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/nemoclaw-openclaw-with-guardrails/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSignal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot interactions (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/signals-creator-is-helping-encrypt-meta-ai/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung says it will introduce a display feature for the Galaxy S26 series that improves "privacy at a pixel level" to protect users from "shoulder surfing" (Abhijeet Mishra/SamMobile)
https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-teases-gala…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrivacy-focused MVNO Cape, which has raised $61M from a16z and others, launches across the US following a March 2025 beta, offering a $99 monthly plan (Steven Melendez/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91481000/this-
