Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-08-06

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…

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

• Vulnerabilities in Car Anti-Theft Device — This is disturbing: &#8230;a team of security researchers at UC San Diego, who found that a model of aftermarket car alarm known as the KARR Security System, installed in more than 2 million vehicles across the US by the…
• 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&#8217;t believe …
• Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google — And it&#8217;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…

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This roundup is generated automatically every day from public feeds. All headlines link to and credit their original sources.