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]
NSA warrantless searches of the private data of US citizens is at an all time high
Warrantless searches of phone calls, chat logs, emails and other data collected from Americans increased by 28 percent.
Instagram wants to tackle “bullying” by “stopping harassment before it even starts”
“The platform would notice” that its user is “about to leave a negative comment”.
Retailers are worried about the dominance of Facebook
One exec at a direct-to-customer brand is quoted as saying that they are “moving on from Facebook and Instagram.”
Facebook is refusing to run political ads encouraging citizens to vote in the EU election
Who knew that over-regulation of online speech, whether imposed or self-imposed, could end up producing “unintended consequences”? Well that would be just about every digital rights and freedoms outfit out there that has been warning about this possibility every time governments – the EU includ
UrlHum is a new privacy-focused link shortener
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), i.e., “web addresses,” are seldom short and sweet these days – but in the end, everyone still really wants them just that way. This is where URL shortening techniques come into play – a method of displaying shorter versions of the actual URL, while directing th
Patreon just widened their terms of service to support the authoritarian practices they’ve been following for some time
Patreon’s terms of service on so-called hate speech have been widely criticized as their terms have applied to whatever you do in your life, regardless of whether it’s on the Patreon platform or not.
Amazon wants to start producing local “crime news” to increase the value of their surveillance doorbell
“Privacy-stealing, but otherwise largely useless Internet of Things (IoT) gizmo meets dystopian reality TV disguised as news – at your very doorstep!” – now there’s a headline Amazon’s future managing editor for all things “Ring” would never sign off on – and not only because it’s so cumbersome
Twitch apparently banned a user for “hate speech” for having the name “Trump” in his username
An email explaining the ban D_Trump_Apprentice69 received from Twitch said that the account was suspended indefinitely for picking an inappropriate username.
Facebook is opening up its data trove to researchers
Researchers will look into the websites Facebook users linked to, and also gain access to Crowdtangle data – a tool that publishers use to monitor content posting on Facebook.
How to watch Facebook’s F8 2019 developer conference livestream
Mark Zuckerberg will begin his keynote at 10AM Pacific Time on April 30th, 2019 and there’s a livestream to go along with it. Here’s how to watch.
A 75-year-old-man is suffering from anxiety after being accused of hardcore porn piracy
The trolls harvest IPs from BitTorrent swarms, and then turn to courts who force ISPs to hand over real life identities of subscribers
UK: Two anti-brexit CUK party candidates step down after controversial tweets surface
Members of the pro-EU party made disparaging remarks about European citizens.