Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-07-30
July 30, 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
- 🏃 Fitness Tracker Privacy Fails | EFFector 38.14 — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Watches, bands, and rings—if you want to digitally monitor your fitness, mo…
- 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…
Hacker News (privacy)
- The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
- Flock Defense "No Expectation of Privacy in Public" Is Wrong
- An American Privacy Emergency — Recent and related: Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau - - June 2026 (604 comments)…
- Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
Hacker News (eSIM)
- eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap
- Cheapest way to keep a UK mobile number using an eSIM
- Implementing automatic eSIM installation on Android
- Been using this Tourist eSIM while traveling, super cheap unlimited data
Schneier on Security
- Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue — This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian . In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI software and open-source AI models, was hacked. A malicious …
- Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot — Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial…
- 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…
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