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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Friday 27 June 2008. 13:52:00 Innocent people swept up in inquisitorial fervour THE UK GOVERNMENT has justified keeping the details of innocent people on the National DNA Database with shameless propaganda, according to a report by Genewatch. The campaign group tackled claims repeated by Prime Munster Gordon Brown for retaining the DNA records of people picked...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Wednesday 25 June 2008. 17:12:00 But very good at handling media strategies THE UK TAX OFFICE was "woefully inadeqaute" at handling personal data, the Independent Police Complaints Commission reported today. No s**t sherlock. HM Revenue and Customs lost the personal records of 25m people in the post last October....
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Wednesday 25 June 2008. 14:02:00 FOI request exposes lie THE LONDON BOROUGH Council of Newham has started negotiating a new megadeal with Microsoft, just four years into the last 10-year agreement. The negotiations, coupled with revelations made by the INQUIRER in April that the original deal had failed to meet its key objectives, will raise questions about...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Monday 23 June 2008. 18:40:00 Wacko sect hunkers down for winter REDNECK CULT LEADER George W Bush has resumed building fortifications around the hill ranch where he has corralled his people behind a huge stock-pile of weapons. Building of a 670 mile fence along the south west border of Ranch Apocalypse had been halted by complaints from environmentalists....
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Monday 23 June 2008. 13:10:00 Petty officials abusing their power? Whatever next? STOP USING ANTI TERRORISM LAWS to catch ordinary people out on a bad day, UK's snooping local authorities have been told. Locally-elected councils are spying on people and then rapping them for things like dropping litter or letting their dog poo on the pavement....
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Thursday 19 June 2008. 14:10:00 Adopting OOXML would be like setting to sea in a sieve THE UK'S HIGH Court was wrong to throw out a legal challenge to Microsoft's OOXML document standard, the software giant's opponents said today. The UK Unix User Group announced today that it would appeal a High Court decision not to grant it a judicial review of the British...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Wednesday 18 June 2008. 16:59:00 Unix beardies ahoy! THE UK'S CHALLENGE to Microsoft's bid to have its documents become an official international standard is back on track. Beardies at the UK Unix User Group (UKUUG) had tried to take the British Standards Institution (BSI) to the High Court for backing a vote at the International Standards Organisation that...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Wednesday 18 June 2008. 13:45:00 Lopsided case for balance UK PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN has defended the apparatus of the UK's emerging surveillance society as the means to bring liberty to the people. Britain's infamous identity cards, CCTV, biometrics and DNA scanners will make people more free by making them more secure, he said yesterday in defence of...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Tuesday 17 June 2008. 16:53:00 Extended over built-up areas THE UK MINISTRY of Defence wants to extend its tests of unmanned flying vehicles over built up areas around Salisbury Plain. It has opened a public consultation before implementing the extension in December 2009, when it wants to let its Watchkeeper surveillance plain roam over larger expanses of...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Tuesday 17 June 2008. 15:33:00 Freedom of information executive clamped in irons THE IT DEPARTMENT of war-waging President George W Bush have dodged a freedom of information request drafted in an attempt to find out whether the administration had improperly sacked a bunch of public prosecutors. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Monday 16 June 2008. 10:37:00 Official complaint, call for a boycott BIDDERS FOR THE UK's pioneering Schools Open Source Project have ganged up against Becta, the quango that commissioned the work, because they say it bodged the tender. Three of the UK's Open Source leaders, who tendered for the work, are furious at being turned down for a consultancy unknown...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Friday 13 June 2008. 12:51:00 David Davis is not a number THE MAN WHO has led the Conservative campaign against the UK's identity cards, CCTV cameras and nosey databases has bet his career on beating the government on the "surveillance state" issue. David Davis, until yesterday the Conservative shadow home secretary, will be fighting for re-election to his...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Friday 13 June 2008. 07:56:00 Becta awards unknown with advocacy deal THE OPEN SOURCE community was bitterly disappointed today after the UK appointed an unknown consultancy to run an historic programme of advocacy in schools. International big hitters had piled behind UK open source houses bidding for a Becta contract to set up an open source community in...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Thursday 12 June 2008. 16:28:00 Microsoft OOXML or open ODF? ONLY ONE STANDARD type of electronic document will survive the struggle for supremacy between convicted monopolist Microsoft and the Open Source movement, said the world's leading standards regulator. A regulatory scrum has formed around the question of whether the architecture of the world's electronic...
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Mark Ballard the Inquirer , Wednesday 11 June 2008. 17:48:00 Training geeks for death and destruction INDIA HAS ENTERED the space arms race. Defence Minister Shri AK Antony said in a press release yesterday that it had set up a military space division in order to tackle a threat that the Times of India attributed to the Chinese....
