Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-07-31
July 31, 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.
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- 🏃 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…
Schneier on Security
- American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials — He’s being prosecuted for giving border officials a code that wiped his phone : The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most mod…
- Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide — This essay originally appeared in The Guardian . I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use…
- 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…
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