Mastodawn

I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

The Guardian

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Mar 2

Aram Sinnreich Mar 2

Pseudonymous Bash

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline that uses LLMs to: (1) extract identity-relevant features, (2) search for candidate matches via semantic embeddings, and (3) reason over top candidates to verify matches and reduce false positives. Compared to classical deanonymization work (e.g., on the Netflix prize) that required structured data, our approach works directly on raw user content across arbitrary platforms. We construct three datasets with known ground-truth data to evaluate our attacks. The first links Hacker News to LinkedIn profiles, using cross-platform references that appear in the profiles. Our second dataset matches users across Reddit movie discussion communities; and the third splits a single user's Reddit history in time to create two pseudonymous profiles to be matched. In each setting, LLM-based methods substantially outperform classical baselines, achieving up to 68% recall at 90% precision compared to near 0% for the best non-LLM method. Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.

arXiv.org

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Feb 7, 2023

Claes de Vreese ☑️Feb 7, 2023

Last week Twitter announced an end to the free #TwitterAPI. ✋

More details were promised. Still nothing. Zero updates. 0️⃣ Unconscionable. 🤨

✍️ Join and sign this Letter: Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest Research

#research #dataaccess #highered #platforms #twitter

https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/

Letter: Imposing Fees to Access the Twitter API Threatens Public-Interest Research

Twitter's API restrictions threaten essential research, innovation, & knowledge. Stand together to protect the public goods from data access.

Coalition for Independent Technology Research

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Dec 21, 2022

I should have done this last Friday but could not because I was seriously ill. However, I am doing it now. I had recorded a podcast for #NIAS. I had interviewed one of the founders of #Altnews.in Pratik Sinha for it. In it we discuss the problems fact checkers face in India. The podcast has been published on Dec 16th #founders and you can listen to the podcast under the link below. Hope you enjoy it and looking forward to your comments.
https://megaphone.link/NBN1974156718

“This Claim has been Fact Checked”: A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India by The Nordic Asia Podcast

A Discussion with Pratik Sinha

Megaphone.fm

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Dec 21, 2022

“This Claim has been Fact Checked”: A Glimpse into Fact Checking in India by The Nordic Asia Podcast

A Discussion with Pratik Sinha

Megaphone.fm

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Dec 8, 2022

Presented my research on Algorithmic bias and journalistic autonomy on Tiktok and YouTube at workshop organised by Minna Ruckenstein, Tuukka Lehtiniemi & Sonja Trifuljesko. Looking forward to collaborations in the future. #ForgetAlgorithmicDramaWorkshop

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Dec 8, 2022

Right now we are discussing how AI interprets Foucault dictating an omelette recipe.
#ForgetAlgorithmicDramaWorkshop

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Dec 8, 2022

Päivi Seppälä & Magdalena Małecka talk on 'AI & discrimination in recruitment'. They give critical overview for relying on AI to address discrimination in recruitment. Using literature in management, personnel selection & cognitive psychology.
They also use literature from computer science, AI industry &policy report. Key takeaways is the idea of mechanical objective is insufficient in AI based recruitment.
#ForgetAlgorithmicDramaWorkshop

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Dec 8, 2022

Jesse Haapoja presentation talks on 'Role theoretical approach to platform disconnection'. It centers around the various roles we play on social media platforms and transition between our online & offline roles.
Key takeaways were we play multiple roles simultaneously and platforms offer us some roles more readily than others.
#ForgetAlgorithmicDramaWorkshop

Anumita (Anu) Goswami Dec 8, 2022

The 2nd presentation by Marta Choroszewicz talks about 'Invisible work of automating public services' through eg. on telecare technologies and data labours. She advocates for 'public services invisible work to be made public to make it sustainable '#ForgetAlgorithmicDramaWorkshop