Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-09-25
September 25, 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
- DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising — <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">Online sports betting company DraftKings </span>…
- 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="…
Schneier on Security
- Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses — This is an impressive piece of malware . Its sophistication says nation-state to me, but there is no direct evidence and certainly no attribution.…
- 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…
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