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]
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Smart lock makes elderly man a prisoner in his own home
Do we control technology or does it control us?
Turkey is the latest country to fine Facebook for data privacy breaches
Turkey fines Facebook $270,000.
The company behind Adblock Plus just backed Factmata, another fact-checking company that wants to profit on being arbiters of truth
Entrepreneurs want to get rich from deciding what’s true.
Google just threw developers under a bus
Another hostile move from Google.
Microsoft Word will automatically correct your sentences to a woke alternative
Software now wants to correct what you say before you say it.
The incestuous relationship between Google and publishers could be about to get worse
Publishers need to start cutting ties with Google’s advertising network in order to survive.
Don’t let tech CEOs redefine “privacy”
Data collection and privacy don’t go together.
Polish drug treatment group is suing Facebook for free speech violations after they suspended its page
It seems it’s not just the US that is tired with Facebook’s movement against free speech.
Amazon’s desire to fund Buzzfeed and The New York Times raises ethics questions
News media relying on big tech to survive may be a bad idea.
Phone carriers have been selling your data, now there’s a class action lawsuit
Customers want to take back control of their data.
@AOCPress parody Twitter account suspended by Twitter, even though it didn’t break the rule Twitter claims it did
The account was marked as a parody.