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]
Cyber attacks on smart home connected devices are up 217.5% year-on-year
Current estimates are that 75 billion connected IoT devices will be in use by 2025, in other words, they will continue to provide ever bigger and more appealing attack vectors to hackers.
Critics say Google is censoring VPN apps in China to “curry favor with Beijing”
Access to VPNs is of crucial importance to those in China who want to circumvent the restrictions imposed by the Great Firewall and reach the global internet.
Apple News could be bad for the longterm viability of publishers, media experts say
The gist of the reluctance on the part of the media? Their growing unwillingness to relinquish control over content and revenue streams, and over their “relationship with the customer.”
The EU’s Rapid Alert System that shares info about “fake news” between member states is now in action
The European Commission has also enlisted help from “independent fact-checkers and researchers to detect and expose disinformation campaigns across social networks.
NordVPN shuts down its Russian servers in a push-back response to Russia’s over-reaching demands
NordVPN is standing strong.
The implementation of the UK porn ID system is going badly
The quandary now proving difficult to resolve and making it harder to implement the idea.
European lawmakers lied when they said that the Article 13 “upload filter” was just a myth
They changed their tune as soon as the vote was passed.
Prosecutors want key figures of the infamous copyright troll company Prenda Law firm to over a decade in jail
Members of the firm uploaded torrents of copyrighted pornographic material to the Pirate Bay sharing website with the goal of luring “pirates” into downloading this content, TorrentFreak is reporting.
The disgraced SPLC has “broad powers” of selecting which AmazonSmile charities can participate in the program
Amazon is yet to wash its hands of this partner, to whom it has given “broad powers” in selecting participants.
Online free speech in Texas is under threat by a new controversial bill, HB 2730
If bill HB 2730 were to pass, it would have multiple negative effects on free speech online.
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile data privacy policies and business models are about to be investigated by the FTC
The FTC would like to know whether ISPs aggregate, anonymize or deidentify information, and what options their consumers have in accessing, correcting or deleting personal data.
A Jehovah’s Witnesses group is trying to abuse copyright law to unmask a Reddit user’s identity
EFF is optimistic that a court will reject the subpoena targeting “darkspilver” – as courts regularly do if these requests don’t pass constitutional scrutiny.