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]
Google will let Android users in Europe choose their browser after being fined $1.7 billion on antitrust grounds
Last year, the EC hit Google with a record 4.34 billion euro fine, also on antitrust grounds – and that came hot on the heels of a 2.4 billion euro penalty announced the previous year.
A Google Photos bug exposed user locations on the web
Imperva security researcher Ron Masas’ proof-of-concept showed that the photos’ metadata could be discovered by taking advantage of the flaw.
Australia joins New Zealand in eroding the digital civil liberties of its people in the wake of the recent terror attack
Australia internet providers have blocked Voat, ZeroHedge, Archive.is, LiveLeak and others, thus directly contravening civil liberties.
The most popular podcast host in the world, Joe Rogan, is a “far right influencer” “like Richard Spencer” according to Axios
Given the past evidence, that is a “demented” conclusion.
The MVPS Hosts file updates that help power UBlock Origin has slowed due to the maintainer’s ill health
At times, even projects critical for the infrastructure of the web have been underfunded and functioning with very few, or even with a sole maintainer.
Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch’s lawsuit against big tech has been dismissed by a court
Her lawsuit named Twitter, along with Google, Facebook, and Apple, as conspiring in unconstitutional suppression of speech
Deleting video content about violent events can often put more people in danger, EFF warns
Often, actually deleting violent content can suppress the freedom of speech and expression of those most in need of such rights.
Germany wants to ban people from hosting a Tor website
Netzpolitik, meanwhile, said in its report that German experts consider the proposed law to be “unnecessary, and dangerous.”
The Japan copyright infringement law fortunately appears to be failing
Under the proposed law, just taking a screenshot would have been illegal.
Google is accused of paying for fake news campaigns to influence policy in Washington
For the past two years the company has been America’s biggest lobbying spender, with a record $21 million used towards this end last year alone.
Google is building “shadow profiles” of its users, tech company Oracle claims
Google – that started off as an internet search company, but is now often accused of making its billions by tracking users’ activities and then making this data available to “3rd party” advertisers – has recently been under fire at home as well.
Facebook is working on technology to “read a person’s mind”
Facebook said that the neural interface device would be “external” and “non-invasive” – if, he noted, the product was going to be used by “everyone.”