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]
China accused of keyword-based surveillance of Uighurs
Chinese hacking outfits are accused of breaking into telecommunications companies in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Kazakhstan, and Turkey
Google’s “I am not a robot” reCAPTCHA can easily be beaten by a robot
It doesn’t take a lot of time, either – 14.86 seconds in the first, and 5.27 in the second scenario.
US citizens increasingly being asked by CBP to hand over social media accounts on re-entering the country
These warrantless searches have taken place 33,295 times last year alone.
Google’s latest ecommerce search changes are anti-competitive and harm affiliate marketing, publishers say
What Google tested doing is show links to publishers, its own Google Shopping service, and a carousel of clickable images of products promoted by publishers, along with these companies’ names.
Leaked document shows EU copyright companies plan to publicly smear tech companies in order to influence them
The leaked document, a letter, shows VG Media spearheading the effort to carry out a campaign to influence public opinion, policymakers and judges across the EU and in member-states against “digital monopolists”.
Hong Kong protesters use offline message apps Bridgefy and FireChat to avoid censorship
This type of offline app has a crucial role in circumventing censors – even if the authorities, too, can hop on to the network at will.
Church website builder data leaks puts thousands of Christians at risk, security researcher says
The leak affected “internal memos and records, customer email communication, ports, pathways, and data storage information Server IP addresses.
Chinese-style social media censorship is increasingly influencing Western platforms
Chinese-style social media censorship – coming to a Western democracy near you.
Governments around the world are increasingly shutting off the internet, putting citizens at risk
23 countries deployed internet blackouts 114 times as a control technique in the first six months of 2019 alone.
Twitter’s use of phone numbers for 2-factor authentication could have dangerous consequences
You might think – Twitter is surely too big to fail its users in this way. But you might want to think again.
Facebook’s Android app sucks up system libraries without permission, researcher says
“There doesn’t seem to be an opt-out option for Facebook Global Library Collector, nor does it not seem to be possible to view what they have uploaded from our devices.”
Creator sues YouTube for allegedly deleting his channel in retaliation to complaints
The YouTuber, whose real-world name is Erik Mishiyev, says he first faced copyright claims against some of his most profitable videos in 2016, to which he responded with successful counter-claims.