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]
Police aren’t happy with facial recognition surveillance bans
More and more states are banning the social media scanning tech.
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UK police are solving the lowest ever proportion of crimes after focussing on speech offenses
“We’re not the thought police.”
Circuit Court of Appeals to consider the argument that Florida’s vaccine passport ban is somehow a free speech violation
The hearing takes place this week.
Canada’s Globe and Mail pushes back against government’s online censorship bill
The editorial board speaks out.
Eckerd College government refuses to recognize Republican group unless it censors its social media posts
The student government wants final say on what can be posted.
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Anonymous app Yik Yak exposed user locations, report alleges
GPS location data.
Facebook turns off AR filters in Texas and Illinois over facial recognition legal concerns
Meta is checking the tech is legal.
Rights groups call on Zoom to stop surveilling people’s emotions
“Emotional tracking software.”
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VPN providers question their future in India after anti-privacy law introduction
A new law would require them to collect logs.