Privacy & Digital Freedom News — 2026-07-21
July 21, 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
- Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool — <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>Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: …
- “Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be. — <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers…
- 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=" celebrate 36 years of EFF</a> and a mission that is b…
Schneier on Security
- On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras — A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral. The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM , not 34 10…
- 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 …
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