Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-07-19
July 19, 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
- Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices — <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>Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor mos…
- Your Vision. Your Legacy. Your Future. — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>This month, <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/building-our-fut…
- How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues — <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">When Ubisoft's </span><a href="https://www.ubiso…
- EFF and ARTICLE 19 Submission to the European Commission on the DSA Trusted Flagger Guidelines — <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">EFF and </span><a href="https://www.article19.or…
Schneier on Security
- Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach — Lots of articles about this . 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.…
- Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System — Really interesting piece of cryptographic history : In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dolla…
- Protecting Privacy in an AI Era — Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link ) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we need to hold companies accountable …
- A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera — Amazing : Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel, can generate and sense arbitrary ligh…
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