Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-08-05
August 5, 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
- Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction — <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 <a href=" </a></span><a href=" href=" t…
- Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA — <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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical int…
- Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds — <div class="field field--name-field-pr-subhead field--type-text field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">Developers Must Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Users’ Privacy</div></div></…
- Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy — <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>Across mobile platforms, advertising companies provide developers wit…
Schneier on Security
- Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems — Attribution is preliminary , and so far it seems no real damage. And it seems like this is a campaign that has targeted at least seven states . And, because this is where the US is right now, Trump doesn’t believe …
- Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google — And it’s personal information (alternate link ): The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze me…
- 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’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild . OpenAI was running s…
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