Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-08-14

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

• Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms — <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 data-contrast="auto">Flock Safety, the embattled vendor of mass surve…
• Who (or What) Generates Images for EFF? — <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 data-contrast="none">We’ve had a few questions from EFF supporters la…
• Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Imagine if McDonald’s could use trademark law to control how you use the te…
• Meta Must Stop Silencing Reproductive Health Information — <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>Access to accurate information about reproductive and maternal health…

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

• Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems — This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in Tech Policy Press . AI represents the first time we humans can do cognitive work outside of our bodies at scale. The only comparable moment is the…
• Prompt Injections for Defense — This seems to work : Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was need…
• AI Genie in the Wild — When I give talks about AI genies , I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It&#8217;s happened . The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And&#8230;. Minutes l…
• AI for Military Support — Interesting empirical research: &#8220; Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI .&#8221; Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict? This study provides a …

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