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]
Popular cartoonist Ben Garrison banned from Instagram
The ban hammer strikes again.
Google’s new AMP domain change will hide the fact a website is served by (and tracked by) Google
The move has many privacy implications.
The California Privacy Senate Bill ignores the biggest privacy-abuser of all: adtech
Adtech’s data on all of us is shocking.
Zuckerberg used personal data about friends, relationships and photos as leverage over company partners
While publicly declaring its commitment to user privacy, the company was looking for ways to use the data it collects to its maximum advantage.
“Digital gangsters” Facebook are frantically trying to find out who leaked thousands of internal documents
“Facebook is trying to leverage the court to frighten and try to identify journalism sources”
Cryptomator is 40% off for Easter – encrypt your cloud storage
Cryptomator is geared toward securing files users upload from their mobile devices to cloud storage services. No coupons necessary.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fans are starting a new “Netflix for socialists”
The money would then be used to fund the new Means TV service on Kickstarter by the end of the year, or in early 2020.
Apple News+ is off to a shaky start, new reports show
“They’re basically playing favorites. It always seems to be good for the big guys, but not for the rest of us.”
The hotel industry didn’t get the memo on privacy
The hotel and travel industry is one of the most invasive.
Buster is a new browser extension that automatically solves annoying CAPTCHAs for you
A new open-source plug-in, Buster, will solve these tests for you by employing automatic speech recognition to solve reCAPTCHA audio challenges.
The Julian Assange indictment attempts to make standard investigative journalistic practice look suspicious
Their concerns is precisely that the process described in the charges represents a standard investigative practice employed by reporters, that is not illegal and should not be outlawed.
The Pirate Bay, RARBG, 1337x, and more to be blocked in India
In other words, the court thinks that preventing access to “illegal content” does not contravene the principle of accessing and sharing online information without interference.