Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
social.tchncs.de is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A friendly server from Germany – which tends to attract techy people, but welcomes everybody. This is one of the oldest Mastodon instances.

Administered by:

Server stats:

3.8K
active users

social.tchncs.de: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#anonymization

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Public
Max Resing

Last week was another stakeholder meeting on #DNS4EU. #Whalebone provided a short overview of the project including a timeline. Public launch is scheduled for June this year. The talk elaborates on various considerations of the new #DNS project. I was mostly interested in the deployment aspect, the #DDoS slides and the #privacy and #anonymization mechanisms.

My personal main concern with the project is the absence of resolver technology. The project plainly uses the #KnotDNS resolver. Not a bad choice, but University taught me that diversity in the backend software introduces even more resiliency. Yet, as Whalebone is a #Czech company, it is apparent why they chose #KnotDNS exclusively.

The slides are public.

Public
LisPi
One issue I consider to remain with low-latency mixnets and overlay networks is that downtime can be deanonymizing.

Even if one has constant bitrate with randomly-selected short downtime/network degradation simulation, that doesn't really help when one's town loses power entirely a few times in a year or whatever and someone bothers to try and map the downtimes onto known locations of power outages over the same year.

Is there any sensible model for handling this failure case?

#Mixnet #TimingAnalysis #SideChannels #Anonymization #Deanonymization #WhyNoDirectTagEditingInAPObjectsYet
#whynodirecttageditinginapobjectsyet
Public
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"This article uses the case study of an insurance product linked to a health and wellbeing program—the Vitality scheme—as a lens to examine the limited regulation of collection and use of non-personal (de-identified/anonymised) information and the impacts it has on individuals, as well as society at large. Vitality is an incentive-based engagement program that mobilises online assessment tools, preventive health screening, and physical activity and wellness tracking through smart fitness technologies and apps. Vitality then uses the data generated through these activities, mainly in an aggregated, non-personal form, to make projections about changes in behaviour and future health outcomes, aiming at reducing risk in the context of health, life, and other insurance products. Non-personal data has been traditionally excluded from the scope of legal protections, and in particular privacy and data regimes, as it is thought not to contain information about specific, identifiable people, and thus its potential to affect individuals in any meaningful way has been understood to be minimal. However, digitalisation and ensuing ubiquitous data collection are proving these traditional assumptions wrong. We show how the response of the legal systems is limited in relation to non-personal information collection and use, and we argue that irrespective of the (possibly) beneficial nature of insurance innovation, the current lack of comprehensive regulation of non-personal data use potentially leads to individual, collective and societal data harms, as the example of the Vitality scheme illustrates."

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

#Australia#HealthInsurance#Anonymization
Replied in thread
Public
LisPi

@ad_on_is The truth is that the #internet should be considered useful as a WAN routing layer, but nothing should actually be using it directly as it is unreliable both because of malicious actors and because of gross neglect by many operators.

Support for #AsynchronousCommunication (which #Usenet demonstrated) is an essential property. #Anonymization, #P2P routing & key-addressing are also minimum requirements to hinder trivial censorship. #Mixnet operation is even better.

Public *
petersuber

New study: Australian #cancer patients support the sharing of anonymized research #data on themselves. Their #consent jumps from 50% to 80% after they see a "visual representation" of how the anonymized data will be shared.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

medRxivWhat do Australians affected by cancer think about oncology researchers sharing research data: a cross-sectional surveyObjectives To characterise the attitudes of Australians affected by cancer towards the sharing of de-identified research data with third parties, including the public. Design, setting, participants Anonymous online survey between October 2022 and February 2023 of adult Australians previously diagnosed with cancer. Main outcome measures Self-reported attitudes towards the sharing of human and non-human data, and the hypothetical sharing of their anonymised medical information and responses to the survey. Results 551 respondents contributed data to the survey. There was strong support for cancer researchers sharing non-human and de-identified human research data with medical doctors (90% and 95% respectively) and non-profit researchers (both 94%). However, this declined when participants were asked whether data should be shared with for-profit researchers (both 64%) or posted publicly (both 61%). When asked if they would hypothetically consent to researchers at their treatment location collecting and sharing their de-identified data publicly, only half agreed (50%). In contrast, after being shown a visual representation of the de-identified survey data, 80% of respondents supported sharing it publicly. A further 10% also supported public sharing of some of the survey data, with the most frequently desired information to be withheld including education history and levels of trust in healthcare stakeholders. Conclusions Australians affected by cancer support the sharing of research data, particularly with clinician and non-profit researchers. Visualisation of the data to be shared may also enhance support for making research data publicly available. These results should help alleviate any concerns about research participants’ attitudes on data sharing, as well as boost researchers’ motivation for sharing. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement This study did not receive any funding. ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: The STEMM2 Human Ethics Committee of The University of Melbourne gave ethical approval for this work (Project ID: 2022-22111-32090-5). I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines, such as any relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material, if applicable. Yes Aggregate data, study materials and analytic code are publicly available on the project's Open Science Framework page under a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/M52K3). Furthermore, so as not to deter people with strong views against public sharing of data from participating in the survey, we did not seek participants' consent to share de-identified participant-level data publicly. However, we did obtain participants' consent to release de-identified data to researchers for future research. Researchers interested in obtaining access to the study dataset can do so by following the instructions on the project's Open Science Framework page (<https://osf.io/m52k3/>). <https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/M52K3>
#Anonymization#Australia#Medicine
Replied in thread
Public
LisPi

@ellenor2000 It makes assumptions that ignore the dubious quality of USA/Canada internet infrastructure outside of large cities (or nearly everywhere for mobile internet in Canada) and it's also annoying for users of various #anonymization networks like #Tor / #I2P (sure one can do multi-megabyte per second, but sometimes one will also do 12kbps depending on the route to a host).

Public
TelemetryDeck

Celebrations! 🥳
The two billionth signal reached our servers. That's two billion clicks, taps, and app starts that provide information about the use of an app that were NOT attributed to a natural or legal person thanks to #anonymization.
Read more: telemetrydeck.com/blog/summer-

PS: We've created a coupon code to celebrate: use code 2BILLION at checkout to get 50% off your order for an entire year (the coupon expires at the end of July, so better hurry).

telemetrydeck.comTelemetryDeck Summer Update 2023 | TelemetryDeck2.000.000.000 signals – we're taking the time to celebrate the small and medium business successes.
Public *
LisPi

@acdha @dalias @Obdurodon Regarding legality, that seems like a problem with the #clearnet more than anything else at that point.

The clearnet should never have been used directly without some layer providing reasonable #anonymization and privacy.

As for spam & LLMs, registration & community moderation can handle that. You get the same sort of result you get on the fediverse now. Malicious servers get defederated and servers that refuse to moderate also.

ExploreLive feeds
About