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]
Analysis of Warrants Reveal Investigators Are Using Google Data To Try and Solve Non-Violent Crimes
Google is handing over the private data of everyone in the area at the time of an alleged crime.
MembersCars: A Modern Privacy Disaster
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BIS Chief Backs Programmable CBDCs, Defends “Limits of Privacy”
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as they say – and so what are some of the least desirable features of a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC) to critics, are promoted as positive by those behind the push for CBDC adoption. Thus, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) General
UN Urges Governments and Platforms To Implement Its Guidelines For Censoring “Misinformation,” and “Hate”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week addressed a high-level meeting in New York City to detail the ideas around preparing for “the next pandemic.” In his remarks – although he had the good sense to first address issues related to actual diseases – Guterres also prominently urges gove
EU Commissioner Věra Jourová Threatens X Over “Disinformation” and Tells Big Tech “We Expect More”
While declaring that it wants to combat, among other kinds, “pro-Kremlin disinformation,” the EU is acting suspiciously, and ironically, like the Kremlin of yore: there are arbitrary accusations flying around against (this time social) media, and of course, there are threats. One by one, major
Anti-Deepfake Law Proposal Threatens Memes and Parody
There is a new legislative proposal, the DEEPFAKES Accountability Act, re-introduced by a Democrat, that seeks to criminalize the use of a certain type of generative AI content. Creators targeted here would be those who fail to label their work as required by the bill, namely, as “malicious dee
Brazil’s UN Representative: “Dissemination of False Information Regarding Health Matters Constitutes…a Possible Criminal Offense”
There was a time when Brazil was considered to have had some of the finest diplomats serving their country and the UN as representatives of the world organization, around the world. Their mission was to mediate in real crises and armed conflicts. Certainly – it was not to serve any one group of
WHO Treaty Negotiators Call For Governments and Big Tech To Tackle “Infodemics,” and “Misinformation”
The idea of a pandemic was just recently seared into everybody’s minds (rightly so, given the level of disruption caused by the reaction to Covid at personal/business/national level) – and now, building on that state of fear – we have a neologism to contend with. “Infodemic.” It’s when saying s
Australian Government Is Urged To Include News Outlets In Censorial Social Media Crackdown On “Misinformation”
Apparently, the once beacons of true democracy around the world these days just can’t get a break trying to stuff some authoritarian narrative into their supposedly “liberal narratives.” So, in trying to guess who one of these may be – too easy. Here’s Australia. The now long-standing – and the
Canada Launches UN Declaration Pledging Restrictions On Online “Disinformation”
A “global” declaration – that only manages to garner the support of 27 out of 193 UN member countries. How dreadfully humiliating – some might say. But rest assured, Canada’s government will find a way to spin this abysmal result of its effort to use this year’s (likely, as ever, a waste of tim
One Day After Passage of Orwellian “Online Safety Bill,” UK Home Office Attacks Private Messaging
The government is demanding a backdoor.
MembersTSA Fast Track Programs Are a Deal With The Devil
Most participants don’t know they’re being spied on daily.