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]
US tech companies with ties to Google are helping Middle East dictators, report suggests
The report suggests that US surveillance tech is being put to bad use in the Middle East and North Africa.
New proposed US copyright laws are a major threat to free speech
The new laws have a good chance of being passed on Congress.
Italy outlines free public Wi-Fi program, raising potential privacy concerns
Getting people used to free public Wi-Fi opens them up to the dangers of hidden private honeypot networks.
YouTube to MP3 and MP4 rippers are being targeted for takedown by YouTube
Many use the services to easily download videos from YouTube to watch or listen to offline. They can easily be downloaded by those that know how, but YouTube wants to make it hard for people by removing the most user-friendly options.
UK Home Secretary pushes crime facial recognition tech that only worked 8 out of 42 times
The technology has been called illegal by civil rights groups.
Google News’ new design shows less news, makes publishers more prominent
Google’s new changes will roll out over the next few weeks.
Ratings company Nielsen to start collecting podcasting data, as the medium is more popular than legacy media
Podcasts are becoming more popular than most radio stations and even prime-time TV shows.
Italian court orders Cloudflare to stop providing services to piracy sites
Cloudflare doesn’t even host any content for the sites, yet the court orders to them to stop working with piracy websites.
Twitter launches soft censorship feature “hidden replies” – starting in Canada
The feature has been tested for some time, and now it’s about to roll out.
US tech companies are helping China monitor millions of its citizens, report shows
China has a history of oppression and a new report suggests US tech firms are profiting off of it.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger calls for a “social contract for social media”
Sanger has an increasing interest in the future of social platforms and ensuring that new platforms don’t make the mistake the old ones made.
Larry Sanger’s social media boycott campaign was suppressed behind a “sensitive content” filter on Twitter
The Wikipedia co-founder accused Twitter of censoring his post.