Mark Ballard - Portfolio - legal affairs legal affairs business + finance technology homepage legal affairs 2018.12.14. | | planning | Westminster brands 5G phone kiosks a deceit 2018.04.23. | | comms | Bureaucracy will balkanize millimetre radio, says tech chief 2015.06.26. | | investigatory powers | Data retention emergency was a fake 2015.04.17. | | contracts | Transparency reform leaves names redacted 2014.11.26. | | corporate responsibility | BT answers drone death complaint 2014.10.30. | | data | Law to leave wiggle room for public data profiteers 2014.08.15. | | investigatory powers | Data retention snoop law *all you need to know* 2014.02.21. | | data | Legal straits forced NHS delay on care.data 2013.12.13. | | copyright | Copyright compromise keeps UK internet archive offline 2013.12.11. | | copyright | UK prepares to launch internet archive without internet access 2012.08.28. | | competition | How Europe did 20 years of backroom deals with Microsoft 2011.09.26. | | strasbourg | International agreement to protect internet free speech 2011.05.27. | | competition | EC concludes backroom deal with Microsoft 2011.04.19. | | treaty | Human rights must trump internet engineering, says Europe 2011.02.03. | | competition | EC renews controversial Microsoft contract 2010.12.08. | | competition | How to win an Oracle contract 2010.11.30. | | competition | EC slapped over open source contract 2010.11.26. | | privacy | Europeans win right to check digital behaviour profiles 2010.09.17. | | treaty | Europe calls for global internet treaty 2010.04.20. | | united nations | UN rejects international cybercrime treaty 2010.04.15. | | united nations | Conflict over UN cybercrime treaty 2010.03.26. | | data protection | Weak cloud security prompts call for global data protection 2009.12.09. | | treaties | ICT industry faces carbon challenge in Copenhagen 2009.10.09. | | supreme court | Court throws out hacker McKinnon's appeal 2009.07.16. | | evidence | McKinnon hacking case relies on hearsay - internal CPS document 2009.06.10. | | extradition | Government 'powerless' to stop McKinnon extradition 2009.06.09. | | human rights | McKinnon extradition could breach human rights, court told 2009.01.21. | | high court | Autistic hackers can be extradited, says UK 2008.12.04. | | human rights | DNA database has wings clipped 2008.11.14. | | privacy | Data chief attacks transatlantic police plan 2008.09.24. | | european law | Peer-to-peer police database baffles regulators 2008.07.08. | | international | Dr Strangelove does data protection 2008.04.28. | | policing | Europlod plan to share DNA and biometric data comes under fire 2007.06.08. | | privacy | MEPs draft ring of flowers for fortress Europe 2007.06.06. | | censorship | MS, Yahoo! and Google snub debate on freedom 2007.06.05. | | privacy | MPs demand controls on Euro police databases 2007.05.25. | | competition | Google plays cat and mouse with regulators 2007.05.25. | | media | EU extends TV law to the internet 2007.05.23. | | brussels | Europe votes to restrict police data sharing 2007.05.15. | | human rights | Immigrant data protected from EU police 2007.04.30. | | human rights | Euro police data plan attacks 'fundamental rights' 2007.04.26. | | copyright | IPRED2 passes, with tweaks to protect personal copying 2007.04.20. | | geneva | IT firms compromise on global injustice 2007.04.05. | | brussels | Brussels rolls coppers over rights barrel 2007.03.28. | | copyright | Games firm pursues 500 pinball 'pirates' through UK courts 2007.02.15. | | international | EU threat to pull data from US 2006.12.08. | | contracts | IT procurement talks enter third year 2006.12.03. | | international | Police wolves pace round electric EU sheep 2006.11.07. | | international | US wants global data law 2006.08.25. | | international | EU may be powerless to stop US snooping 2006.05.16. | | patents | Supremes harry patent trolls 2006.05.10. | | magistrates | Judge greenlights extradition of 'Pentagon hacker' 2006.05.05. | | patents | Gowers warned over patent review 2006.02.07. | | patents | Patent 'fundamentals' questioned 2005.12.30. | | patents | Shining a light on patents 2005.07.20. | | competition | Integrators face one Dell of a challenge 2004.12.13. | | contracts | Mixed reaction to OGC contract guidelines