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]
Alexa should testify in court, Germany’s Federal Interior Ministry says
They say that, at least for now, it should only be used for terrorist incidents and other serious crimes.
George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” is 70 years old today and its message is still resonating around the world
The themes of 1984 are perhaps more prominent today than they were when it was published.
After TurboTax’s deceptive marketing was revealed, Congress allows the IRS to compete with TurboTax
TurboTax was providing a service that was free through the IRS.
For YouTubers whose livelihoods are at stake due to a problem with their channel, their best chance of YouTube even bothering to acknowledge them is, for some reason, on Twitter
If you don’t have many Twitter followers, you’re probably out of luck.
Notorious “fact checker” Snopes is involved in a bitter legal dispute
The legal battle is set to continue into next year.
Bloom provide the open source alternative to many Google products
Private and open source, Bloom looks to be the future of open source Google alternatives.
The EU hid the fact that the EU’s embassy in Moscow was hacked
It’s not yet known why the EU decided to keep it a secret.
The surveillance state of China says it wants apps to get consent before tracking users
Even China is calling for privacy measures for tech companies.
Apparently, publishing images of the Tiananmen massacre memorial vigils on WeChat is “spreading malicious rumors”
China has gone all out in terms of censorship of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre.
Facebook investors vote to oust Zuckerberg…but he just overrules their motion
It seems shareholders and investors can’t seem to get rid of their problematic leader.
GitHub deletes developer’s “life’s work” video game project, after a “report made out of spite”
GitHub has apologized for the error and said that the situation will be “investigated and learned from”
YouTube has been ordered to hand over personal info of alleged manga pirates
They want names, addresses, IP logs, and financial information.