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]
EU court rules it’s a privacy invasion to have Facebook Like button on websites
Facebook says it’s going to look at the ruling and work out a way to comply.
Facebook is globalizing the idea of bypassing end-to-end encryption by compromising devices
The debate about end-to-end encryption is rendered useless if Facebook is compromising messages before they even leave the device.
As centralized platforms turn to bias and censorship, 2019 is the year to start a website
Social platforms are worse than ever with censorship, privacy invasion and bias. It’s time to go back to having a part of the web that you control.
With the CASE act, Congress takes aim at memes
The CASE act will allow copyright trolls to tackle those who upload works they don’t own the original copyright for.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey vows to suppress “misinformation” on the road to the 2020 elections
Dorsey isn’t the only big tech CEO that’s made this promise.
Google whistleblower Greg Coppola to Tucker: algorithms don’t “write themselves”
The reprimanded employee went on Fox News to give more info about what he says are Google’s biases.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman tries to explain the vague reasons behind “quarantining” subreddits like The Donald
Keeping the rules vague seems to be a recent tactic to allow platforms to ban at will, even when users abide by the rules.
Amazon and Microsoft now control half of the entire cloud infrastructure market
The illusion of choice is getting weaker.
Australian watchdog to call on Google and Facebook to reveal their algorithms
A major new report released today, outlines all the was Australia wants to rein in big tech. And forcing tech companies to reveal their algorithms is one of the recommendations.
Google stumbles, DuckDuckGo surges
Google searches are down 8% year over year. DuckDuckGo is up 49%.
Australia sets up a new antitrust branch to monitor Facebook and Google
The branch will eventually span out to monitoring other platforms. They’re starting with what they see as the worst offenders – FB and Google.
Outlook for web leaks your location to whoever you send an email to
Microsoft says it’s a feature, not a bug.