#confidentiality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #confidentiality, aggregated by home.social.
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The phone number requirement is (for me personally) not a problem of #security or #privacy or #confidentiality, but one of #convenience.
I like to have multiple accounts for different use cases. I.e. I have four #Jabber accounts: Job/work, private, my #freeSoftware project, and a "social"/public one.
Phone number requirement means, I have to get mulltiple phone numbers and keep them over years. That's cumbersome.
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Emma, the doctor's AI receptionist, doesn't understand security
#ai #security #infosec #gdpr #confidentiality #vibecoding #codinghorrors #medicine #nhs #uknews #ukpolitics
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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170479
#HackerNews #Apple #OpenAI #data #breach #ex-employees #confidentiality #tech #news
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To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
You need advice from me): Be careful about
The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
[Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “To Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness
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How can we encourage risky learning at conferences? By making them small, safe events where everyone is both a teacher and a student.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/01/risky-learning
#meetings #learning #RiskyLearning #confidentiality #events #eventprofs
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ICYMI: OpenAI hires 400 ex-Apple staff, now Apple sues over stolen secrets: Two named engineers allegedly downloaded confidential files and coached recruits on evading Apple security. The case may reshape how AI firms hire from rivals. https://ppc.land/openai-hires-400-ex-apple-staff-now-apple-sues-over-stolen-secrets/ #OpenAI #Apple #AIHiring #TechNews #Confidentiality
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As a #CSA #Survivor, I have spent my afternoon collecting the contact details of 836 EU officials (Parliamentarians, Permanent Representatives and their staff) and sending all of them a plea not to vote for the urgency procedure this week designed to circumvent legislative oversight - on a law Parliament already rejected.
You should do the same - find them all here:
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/downloads
#ChatControl #CSAM #ChildRape #Privacy #Confidentiality #FundamentalRights
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A long but important read - well worth it!
“Silenced”
by Carole Cadwalladr in How To Survive The Broligarchy on Substack
@uk_politics
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian
@Independent
@thetimes
@newyorktimes
@miamiherald“Facebook's silencing of a whistleblower shines a light on a private justice system and a ‘post-state’ future where tech bros write the rules. Or as we call them, ‘laws’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/silenced
#Press #SocialMedia #US #UK #TechBro #Palantir #Thiel #Argentina #Millei #AI #Censorship #Arbitration #CanbridgeAnalytica #Facebook #Zuckerberg #AICEO #BigTech #G7 #Anthropic #DeepMind #SiliconValley #Confidentiality #Authoritarianism #Prospera #Honduras
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data #interoperability:
"The EU’s push for the digitalisation of essential services is often framed as a technical inevitability. It is not, it is a political choice—one that prioritises market integration and administrative control over fundamental rights and social inclusion."
#digitalIdentity #digitalisation #dataProtection #dataPrivacy #personalData #confidentiality #privacy #administrativeControl #complexity #EU #EuropeanUnion
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@hacker_news_bot/116659127461194524
A #smart move by #mistral to focus and #specialise their #models while answering to the #sovereignty and #confidentiality needs.
The #competition on cutting edge models is just unbearable. #EU is missing the fundamental pillars: #chip making, #energy sources, #investments and what is more important: a political coordinated #vision. Of course, while valuable, mistral contribution is a patch on a much larger #problem. But it is better than nothing. -
LAWYERS UNEASY AS AI NOTE-TAKERS MINGLE IN MEETINGS
Lawyers worry about AI note-takers storing sensitive data outside the US, risking client confidentiality and legal privilege. What happens next?
#AINews, #LegalTech, #Confidentiality, #AttorneyClientPrivilege, #DataSecurity
https://newsletter.tf/ai-note-takers-lawyers-confidentiality-fears/
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AI note-takers are raising concerns for lawyers. Many apps store data on third-party servers, potentially outside the US, which is a big worry for keeping client secrets safe.
#AINews, #LegalTech, #Confidentiality, #AttorneyClientPrivilege, #DataSecurity
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How can we make it as easy as possible for people to talk about difficult stuff? Well, we can talk about anything, if we feel safe enough…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/01/we-can-talk-about-it
#meetings #facilitation #EventDesign #sharing #safety #confidentiality
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#US #tech firms successfully lobbied #EU to keep data centre #emissions secret
Legally questionable #confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of #Microsoft and trade groups ...
#CorporateGreed #greed #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CO2 #ClimateEmergency #corruption #lobbying #USThreats #PeopleNotProfits #LifeNotProfits #CorporateTerrorism
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How can we encourage risky learning at conferences? By making them small, safe events where everyone is both a teacher and a student.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/01/risky-learning
#meetings #learning #RiskyLearning #confidentiality #events #eventprofs
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You like Signal for it's outstanding #confidentiality? Fine!
You like Threema, since it's safe, it's from #Switzerland, and #ElsbethSigmund as #Heidi was your #childhoodCrush? Great!
You like Whatsapp, because your friends are there? I don't blame you!
But 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 don't claim, that any of those #centralServices would support #digitalAutonomy, #digitalIndependence, #digitalSovereignty. They have their merits, but they still are #walledGardens.
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I manage a #sonasystems service and I am also the "brand administrator" for #qualtrics in my department. There's an issue with confidentiality; I wonder if some #research or #survey person knows a way around it:
SONA's "Qualtrics integration" instructions describe how to set things up so research participants can click the entry for a study on the SONA page and be taken to the corresponding Qualtrics survey, then--when finished with the survey--be redirected back to SONA with an anonymous record of their participation in Qualtrics.
The problem is that it's not anonymous. Not even a little. Not if you're both the SONA person and the Qualtrics person, which is probably the case in many institutions.
SONA does indeed replace the research participant's name in the URL info string with an "anonymous" ID number. That number is sent back to SONA for purposes of giving the research participant credit in SONA.
This process is only anonymous if you don't have access to both SONA and the Qualtrics survey: SONA gives a random (?) 5-digit ID number to each participant and send that to Qualtrics, which uses it to populate an embedded data field called id. Then at the end of the survey Qualtrics sends the same ID number back to SONA.
I'm looking at SONA and Qualtrics. Qualtrics gives me the "anonymous" ID number of every participant sent from SONA. SONA has the ID number paired with names in a fairly easy-to-access dashboard view for users with the roles "PI", "administrator," or (I think) "researcher".
So every student researcher doing "anonymous" survey projects can see the exact responses on surveys for each student participant, by name. It's not hard. I don't think any of my students is savvy enough to see this and pair the two values, or that they care, but this is Very Not Anonymous.
Is there some way around this where SONA-Qualtrics integration works, and is also actually anonymous, even if someone (e.g., me, the SONA administrator) has access to both the Qualtrics data and the SONA system?
[edit: Since finding this, I've been just deleting the ID data from the Qualtrics data when downloading. However, it's not an option to delete the embedded data variable until all data collection is finished ForEver, so the possibility of identifying participants who were promised anonymity remains until then; I can manage this for my students, but not for other faculty, and of course this all depends on my honesty. I do not want anything like this to depend on my honesty.]
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Comment on DHS Records Modification
We received notice from Restore the Fourth about a comment period on a DHS change to the agency’s record system. Disturbingly, they have already made the change, but now are asking for retroactive approval. Sorry, no approval from us!
There are just 3 days left to comment, so have your say at this link.
Here is the text of Restore the Fourth’s e-mail announcing the comment period, which I sadly did not notice days ago when it was sent:
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), for the first time, has begun pooling data from DHS, the Social Security Administration, the IRS and state voter rolls, to generate a list of US citizens in its “Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)” database.
They have begun doing this without notifying the American public of this change in practice, and without offering an opportunity before they began for people to comment, violating the National Privacy Act of 1974. That Act, responding to Watergate, intentionally siloed federal datasets, preventing different federal agencies from sharing data except in very specific cases where justification and notification of the subject of the “investigation” is required.
Without that siloing, the government can go fishing across all of government to find anything that a pre-selected person has done wrong; and doing that violates the Fourth Amendment.
What USCIS is doing now is asking for public comment on these changes that have already happened, in order to get some sort of retrospective blessing and insulate themselves from legal challenges. We don’t bless it. We urge you to write comments objecting to it.
Below is the Restore the Fourth suggested e-mail with a list of talking points; use one or more, paraphrase, or write your own comment:- I oppose the change that DHS/USCIS has implemented to the US Citizenship and Immigration Service’s (USCIS’) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. Pooling data from DHS, the Social Security Administration, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and state voter data and other sources violates the National Data Privacy Act of 1974. The fact that DHS/USCIS is belatedly asking for comment about the changes that it has already implemented by accessing data from other federal agency databases in order to gather additional information on immigrants in violation of the National Data Privacy Act is deeply troubling because many Americans would have opposed this change had they been consulted ahead of the change, as the Act requires.
- The National Privacy Act of 1974 created silos in order to prevent different federal agencies from sharing data except in very specific cases, and in those cases justification and notification of the subject of the “investigation” is required. Enacted in the aftermath of Watergate, the National Privacy Act was designed to protect Americans from investigations where the government is fishing for evidence that someone has committed a crime with no predicate based on probable cause that they have done anything criminal. Access by any agency to another agency’s data without probable cause to see specific data on a suspect is illegal in order to protect all of us, regardless of our political party or our immigration status. Every resident of the U.S. is entitled to the protections enshrined by the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution.
- The legal justification provided by DHS in its SORN for its merger of federal databases is a 1999 opinion in which the Department of Justice limited the kinds of restrictions agencies could put on sharing data with law enforcement. It provides for the lawful disclosure of citizenship- or immigration-related information, but it does not grant the Social Security Administration the authority to disclose information without adhering to the requirements of the Privacy Act.
- The repurposing of data from different agencies is also dangerous because different people’s records may be incorrectly linked together because of a name misspelling or even a failure to update a name change.
- DHS/ICIS has implemented additional changes to normal practices as part of its consolidation. Until recently there was no way to deactivate a person’s Social Security number and prevent them from receiving benefits unless there was documentation of their death. Under SAVE, DHS now uses a special indicator code to flag what it considers questionable data or special circumstances concerning an application for an SSN. This allows DHS, without any form of review, to terminate someone’s Social Security benefit. In one case earlier this year when the Social Security Administration under DOGE accidentally declared an 82-year-old man dead (see https://www.livenowfox.com/news/seattle-man-social-security-error), he lost his Social Security benefits, Medicare coverage, and even access to his bank fund. Since in the system being implemented by DHS there will be challenges in matching up names across various databases, the risk of accidental terminations of benefits is heightened.
- In 2023, a lawyer from the Social Security Administration wrote to the Fair Elections Center that “while SSA records provide an indication of citizenship, they do not provide definitive information on U.S. citizenship,” so it is very concerning that SSA data can now be used to eliminate Americans from voter rolls without further verification.
- Until now, undocumented Immigrants who lawfully paid federal taxes on their earnings using an Individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) were promised that their personal information would remain confidential. DHS access to the IRS database completely undermines this protection, making it much less likely that they will file. This reduces government revenue and will result in increased taxes for the rest of us.
- We are seeing more frequent and broader hacking operations affecting federal agencies by foreign states and other actors (see https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-charges-12-chinese-contract-hackers-and-law-enforcement-officers-global and https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/us-treasurys-workstations-hacked-cyberattack-by-china-afp-reports-2024-12-30/ and https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/The-OPM-Data-Breach-How-the-Government-Jeopardized-Our-National-Security-for-More-than-a-Generation.pdf). By combining databases as DHS/USCIS is doing, hundreds of millions of Americans’ data may be compromised by hackers.
- For all of these reasons, I ask DHS/USCIS to terminate the changes to the SAVE program.
#confidentiality #data #dataSilos #dhs #hacking #immigration #irs #nationalDataPrivacyActOf1974 #privacy #recordKeeping #repurposingData #save #socialSecurity #ssa #systemicAlienVerificationForEntitlements #uscis
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Environmental activist Ben Pennings declares ‘massive victory’ after Adani drops its years-long legal pursuit https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/adani-drops-legal-pursuit-environmental-activist-ben-pennings #auslaw #auspol #confidentialinformation #tradesecrets #confidentiality
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Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data
https://apnews.com/article/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-firing-pulte-data-a4f8c53df74fef83ec7fd07e3d524746
#HackerNews #FannieMae #Firing #DataPrivacy #Confidentiality #NewsAlert
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I am astonished to still see colleagues offering programs with FB and Whatsapp "community" elements, in 2025!
Nope, nope, nope.Hopefully this will wake my colleagues up. Ours is a profession requiring deep trust and confidentiality. Meta products do not allow this.
(Oh, and: Meta consuming all their users' #AI transcripts and chatbot prompts!)
😱😖
#iLoveMyJob #lifeCoach #privacy #confidentiality
Thanks, @PhilipTheBucket https://quokk.au/c/[email protected]ocial/p/410433/meta-fb-insta-whatsapp-will-read-your-dms-and-ai-chats-rolling-out-from-dec
