Didi Rankovic
Didi Rankovic is an experienced online journalist, editor, and translator, with a career spanning over ten years writing for major a English-language website in Serbia, and previously working as translator for international organizations and peacekeepers in the Balkans. Rankovic is passionate about free and open source tech and is a head contributor for Reclaim The Net, focusing on lead stories. [email protected]
Rights groups demand “speech offenses” are excluded from UN cybercrime treaty
Pushing back against threats to free speech.
Washington Post’s Dave Weigel is suspended for joke retweet
“Taylor Lorenz can literally lie and violate basic standards and gets no punishment. Felicia can leak her bosses emails… violate company policy and harass her coworkers and is good to go. Dave Weigel shitposts and he’s suspended without pay for a month.” – Saagar Enjeti
Germany continues to pick a fight with Telegram
Censorship demands.
Vodafone plans to subvert privacy protections with new ad-tracking tech
Tracking on the service provider level.
Breaking down DuckDuckGo’s Microsoft tracking controversy
The privacy-focussed company has been accused of using Microsoft trackers.
Facebook fact-checkers can’t agree on definition for “energy independence”
Facebook censors based on their decisions but “fact-checkers” don’t always agree.
WHO partners with Deutsche Telekom to push global vaccine passport system
The affront to civil liberties continues.












