Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-09-24
September 24, 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
- D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents — <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">EFF joined an </span><a href=" data-contrast="no…
- EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy — <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">The EU Commission draft law to restrict young pe…
- EFF Statement on California Governor's Executive Order on AI — <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>California Gov. Gavin Newsom's </span><a href=" target="_blank" rel="…
- How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27 — <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>Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new v…
Hacker News (privacy)
- Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
- GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
- An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
- The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
Hacker News (eSIM)
- Plaud's new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
- 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
Schneier on Security
- Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior — New paper: “ Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training .” Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of unintentional misali…
- GPT-6 Astra Breaks an Old Enigma Message — This is pretty amazing: However, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT6 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT6 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma…
- Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras — Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link ) at the software: While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint anal…
- Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacs — Short essay about squid egg sacs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.…
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