Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-10-04

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

• Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name — <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">There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in …
• Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs — <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>Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed conc…
• Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit — <div class="field field--name-field-pr-subhead field--type-text field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">Judge Allows Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit Against Trump Administration to …
• Ola Bini Ordered to Leave Ecuador Under Obscure Accusations — <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">In a new blow to </span><a href=" Bini’s</span><…

Hacker News (privacy)

• Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
• A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]
• Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
• GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost

Hacker News (eSIM)

• Opera Adds Travel eSIM to Android Browser with 3GB Free Data
• 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

Schneier on Security

• Friday Squid Blogging: EU is Trying to Fight Unregulated Squid Fishing — The EU is recommending import controls to combat unregulated squid fishing in the Southwest Atlantic. I&#8217;m not optimistic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news th…
• Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida — St. Lucie County in Florida discovered ( alt link ) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can&#8217;t identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story of StingRay cell …
• How American Political Campaigns Are Using AI—and What They’re Spending on the Tools — This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns are using AI tools and how much they are spendi…
• Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform — Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports , evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: The new Northeastern study shows, for the first time, data flowing among the vehicles,…

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This roundup is generated automatically every day from public feeds. All headlines link to and credit their original sources.