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]
Australian retailer gives away Google Home Minis – but at what “cost”?
They can give them away because it’s your data that you pay with.
US military personnel had their private medical data exposed online
The database leak contained names, addresses and personal medical info.
Tucker Carlson slams the Koch brothers for funding online censorship scheme
The Koch brothers have teamed up with the ADL and others to reduce “hate speech” online.
Apple stands in the way of Telegram’s censorship-free vision
Apple’s lock down of the App Store means it can censor content in apps such as Telegram. And it does.
Yahoo! Japan’s new system looks suspiciously like a social credit score
Yahoo! may be all but dead everywhere else, but it’s still big in Japan.
Free and open source software is being sold commercially in the Microsoft Store
Microsoft doesn’t appear to be bothered about the practice.
Google’s advertising monopoly will be its antitrust downfall, report suggests
Google is behind almost 40% of all advertising across the entire web.
Facebook wants to create “a safe space for trustworthy news”
Facebook is more determined than ever to crack down on what’s allowed on the platform.
MailChimp has banned anti-vax newsletters
Many who have been censored on other platforms have turned to newsletters to get their message out. MailChimp wants to stop that.
Porn copyright troll from Prenda Law sentenced to 14-years in prison
For years, the law firm have been up to no good.
Black Hat conference disinvites keynote speaker for his history of voting to restrict late-term abortions
The cyber security conference decided they no longer wanted their keynote speaker because of his pro-life perspective.
A Buzzfeed walkout is imminent, new report says
Buzzfeed’s Union is going to attempt to do what Vox did to keep its staff highly paid at a time when the industry is floundering.