Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-08-04

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

• The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks — <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 Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation t…
• EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act — <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>EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter…
• EFF Joins Call for FTC to Drop Its Disastrous AI Policy Proposal — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July issued a proposed policy stateme…
• The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox — <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 Senate Commerce Committee is poised to consider the</span> <a hre…

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

• More on the OpenAI Agent’s Attack on Hugging Face — Hugging Face has published a detailed timeline of the attack. From the summary: The agent was running an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation based on the ExploitGym benchmark, which tasks an AI agent with finding…
• The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle — This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy . Earlier this month, two of OpenAI&#8217;s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild . OpenAI was running s…
• Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species — The Squid is a new scientific machine : One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organi…
• Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection — The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved…

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