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»The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII:
A 2020 MacBook Air can hash every North American phone number in four hours«
Good article that clearly shows that only hashing alone is not yet data safe. That's where HMAC belongs at the SHA-2 min. but also not to save passwords and the same.
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The Privacy Theater of Hashed PII
It takes a 2020 Macbook Air four hours to hash every North American phone number

Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Cristina Aggazzotti, Ashi Garg, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12780 https://a…

Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Voice anonymization techniques have been found to successfully obscure a speaker's acoustic identity in short, isolated utterances in benchmarks such as the VoicePrivacy Challenge. In practice, however, utterances seldom occur in isolation: long-form audio is commonplace in domains such as interviews, phone calls, and meetings. In these cases, many utterances from the same speaker are available, which pose a significantly greater privacy risk: given multiple utterances from the same speaker, an…

One might think that Microsoft's storage of the actual contents (not just the meta-data) all phone calls from Gaza and the West Bank might violate both US and EU privacy laws.
The US might ignore this, but I suspect the EU could use the GDPR to levy very large, punitive fines on Microsoft.
"‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"

Privacy is not a fool's game. If you give up today everything you did will be lost...
There is always a way or there will be soon.
#privacy

Every user: "We want #Firefox to be a real agent for the user, that doesn't give us AI slop and won't sell out our privacy."
#Mozilla: "On Firefox for iOS you can now get an "AI" to summarize a page by shaking your phone"
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https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/

Next week, on the 14th of October, the EU will attempt to push through a new law called "Chat Control." They claim this law is necessary to protect children from harmful individuals—and let’s be clear, protecting children is crucial. But here’s what’s really happening: the EU wants to scan every phone, tablet, and computer. This includes your photos, files, and every message you’ve sent or will send. 448 million people will be under 24/7 surveillance.
You might say, "I ha…

Extended Version: Security and Privacy Perceptions of Pakistani Facebook Matrimony Group Users
Mah Jan Dorazahi, Deepthi Mungara, Yasemin Acar, Harshini Sri Ramulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08782

Extended Version: Security and Privacy Perceptions of Pakistani Facebook Matrimony Group Users
In Pakistan, where dating apps are subject to censorship, Facebook matrimony groups -- also referred to as marriage groups -- serve as alternative virtual spaces for members to search for potential life partners. To participate in these groups, members often share sensitive personal information such as photos, addresses, and phone numbers, which exposes them to risks such as fraud, blackmail, and identity theft. To better protect users of Facebook matrimony groups, we need to understand aspects…

AI Eyes on the Road: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Traffic Surveillance
Ziming Wang, Shiwei Yang, Rebecca Currano, Morten Fjeld, David Sirkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06480 h…

AI Eyes on the Road: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Traffic Surveillance
AI-powered road surveillance systems are increasingly proposed to monitor infractions such as speeding, phone use, and jaywalking. While these systems promise to enhance safety by discouraging dangerous behaviors, they also raise concerns about privacy, fairness, and potential misuse of personal data. Yet empirical research on how people perceive AI-enhanced monitoring of public spaces remains limited. We conducted an online survey ($N=720$) using a 3$\times$3 factorial design to examine percep…

Good stuff, but I hope this includes the capacity to change the default behaviour on a per-post basis.
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115062415406387422

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

Apple fought for privacy in 2016, refusing to implement a backdoor that would grant access to a domestic terrorist's phone (and therefore literally all iPhones), so I got an iPhone.
This news doesn't surprise me at all: Apple doesn't act on principle, it acts on profitability, which sometimes overlaps. That's not good enough. (I'll never have another iPhone.)
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