Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-08-20
August 20, 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
- 📍 The Sneaky Code Tracking App Users | EFFector 38.15 — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Your location isn't just a pin on a map—it can expose some of the most inti…
- Ninth Circuit Ruling Will Force Online Platforms That Host User Speech to Fight Lengthy and Costly Lawsuits Before They Are Dismissed Under Section 230 — <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 federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and sm…
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets — <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=" verification</span></a><span> (laws and regulations requiring pla…
- 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…
Schneier on Security
- ICE Collecting DNA Samples — ICE collected nearly a million DNA samples last year.…
- LLMs and Contextual Integrity — I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic. “ CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of Persistent Memo…
- Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials — Criminals are hacking into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels, conference centers, and so on—around the world and changing their DNS settings. The goal is to redirect users to fake login pages and steal their cre…
- Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid — Fascinating video about searching for life undersea. The video basically makes the point that our bright white searchlights are scaring everything away, and that red light is more neutral. That, plus bait to attract sea …
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