Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-09-29
September 29, 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
- EFF to San Francisco Police: Drones are Powerful Surveillance Tools That Require a Robust Policy — <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 San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) began regularly deploying …
- EFF to Court: Trump's Use of Truth Social's Pay-To-See-Posts-First Scheme Violates Americans' 1st Amendment Equal Access Rights — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><em>EFF legal intern Simar Kaur also contributed to this article.</em></p> …
- 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…
Schneier on Security
- Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal — Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability: Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow people to use their acco…
- New Attack Against RSA — ArsTechnica is reporting on a “new” attack against RSA, one that bypasses factoring. First, this attack isn’t new. The original research is from 2007 . What is new is the implementation. Second, it is a…
- Friday Squid Blogging: Participatory Squid Dissection in October in Tennessee — I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this : Families are invited to dive into the fascinating world of marine biology during an exciting, hands-on Family Squid Dissection at the Hands-On Science Cen…
- On Anthropic’s AI Misuse Report — Earlier this month, Anthropic published a long report detailing all of the Claude misuses it detected. Daniel Meissler usefully summarized the report into 117 findings. A few of the highlights: AI agents increasingly han…
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