Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-07-29
July 29, 20262 min readnews · privacy · roundup · auto
The daily reading list for people who care about digital privacy — curated headlines with links to the original reporting. Why we track this: every new SIM-registration law, data-broker leak, and surveillance expansion is a reason anonymous connectivity exists.
EFF Deeplinks
- San Francisco: Don’t Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><span>The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larg…
- Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons? — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><a href=" reports</span></a><span> have </span><a href=" alarm</span></a><s…
- Missed EFF's Livestream with Adam Savage and iFixit? Listen Here! — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>EFF’s first <a href=" Change livestream</a> was all the way back in July of…
- Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><span>For years, John Deere had actively made repairing their tractors near…
Schneier on Security
- Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis — There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: “ CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptana…
- Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company — Governments are switching, but I’m not sure it makes a difference : …some municipalities, including Denver, Colorado, are ditching their Flock arrays. But keep in mind that if they’re only switching fro…
- Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van — Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company : Made by Israeli surveillance company Cognyte, the tech simulates a mobile phone tower, which forces nearby phones to connect to it. That enables cops to keep tabs on any ph…
- Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands — Lower catch this year . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.…
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