Balancing Privacy and Utility in Correlated Data: a Study of Bayesian Differential Privacy

Privacy risks in differentially private DP systems increase significantly when data is correlated, as standard DP metrics often underestimate the resulting privacy leakage, leaving sensitive information vulnerable. Given the ubiquity of dependencies in real-world databases, this oversight poses a...

Facial recognition: Where and how you can opt out

Our remote team recently took a trip to our Estonian office. When we arrived from our various destinations, we started chatting about how our travel had been. Our senior privacy advocate, David Ruiz, mentioned that he'd opted out of facial recognition while at San Francisco International Airport...

Many data brokers are failing to register with state consumer protection agencies

Hundreds of data brokers haven't registered with state consumer protection agencies, according to The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse PRC. There are different kinds of data brokers, but what they all have in common is that they gather personally identifiable...

Sextortion email scammers increase their “Hello pervert” money demands

Every so often the sextortion emails that start with “Hello pervert” get a redesign. You may have received one yourself: The emails claim that the sender has been watching your online behavior and caught you red-handed doing activities that you would like to keep private. The email usually starts...

Client Clustering Meets Knowledge Sharing: Enhancing Privacy and Robustness in Personalized Peer-To-Peer Learning

The growing adoption of Artificial Intelligence AI in Internet of Things IoT ecosystems has intensified the need for personalized learning methods that can operate efficiently and privately across heterogeneous, resource-constrained devices. However, enabling effective personalized learning in...

PrivacyGo: Privacy-Preserving Ad Measurement with Multidimensional Intersection

This paper tackles the challenging and practical problem of multi-identifier private user profile matching for privacy-preserving ad measurement, a cornerstone of modern advertising analytics. We introduce a comprehensive cryptographic framework leveraging reversed Oblivious Pseudorandom Function...

Don'T Hash Me like That: Exposing and Mitigating Hash-Induced Unfairness in Local Differential Privacy

Local differential privacy LDP has become a widely accepted framework for privacy-preserving data collection. In LDP, many protocols rely on hash functions to implement user-side encoding and perturbation. However, the security and privacy implications of hash function selection have not been...

Empowering Digital Agriculture: a Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research

Data-driven agriculture, which integrates technology and data into agricultural practices, has the potential to improve crop yield, disease resilience, and long-term soil health. However, privacy concerns, such as adverse pricing, discrimination, and resource manipulation, deter farmers from...

Communication-Efficient Publication of Sparse Vectors under Differential Privacy

Whitepaper called Communication-Efficient Publication Of Sparse Vectors Under Differential Privacy...

SUSE CVE-2025-6431

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

Thousands of private camera feeds found online. Make sure yours isn’t one of them

If you have internet-connected cameras in or around your home, be sure to check their settings. Researchers just discovered 40,000 of them serving up images of homes and businesses to the internet. Bitsight's TRACE research team revealed the issue in a report released this month. The cameras were...

New U.S. Visa Rule Requires Applicants to Set Social Media Account Privacy to Public

The United States Embassy in India has announced that applicants for F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas should make their social media accounts public. The new guideline seeks to help officials verify the identity and eligibility of applicants under U.S. law. The U.S. Embassy said every visa...

CVE-2025-6431

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

CVE-2025-6431

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

CVE-2025-6431

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-6431

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

CVE-2025-6431 The prompt in Firefox for Android that asks before opening a link in an external application could be bypassed

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

CVE-2025-6431 The prompt in Firefox for Android that asks before opening a link in an external application could be bypassed

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

CVE-2025-6431

When a link can be opened in an external application, Firefox for Android will, by default, prompt the user before doing so. An attacker could have bypassed this prompt, potentially exposing the user to security vulnerabilities or privacy leaks in external applications. This bug only affects...

CVE-2025-6431

The connected documents confirm CVE-2025-6431 affects Firefox for Android and describes a bypass where the prompt to open a link in an external application could be bypassed, potentially exposing users to security/privacy risks in external apps. The vulnerability is limited to Firefox for Android...