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This morning/afternoon.

Phoenix Park, Dublin

Vice President of the United States of America, Mike Pence and his wife Karen meets Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his partner Matthew Barrett (right) at Farmleigh House where they will have lunch.

Earlier: And Add The Halfpence To The Pence

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Update:

Ah.

This afternoon.

Farmleigh House, Phoenix Park, Dublin.

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David Carroll, of The Great Hack

This morning.

On RTÉ’s Today with Seán O’Rourke.

Mr O’Rourke had a discussion about data protection concerns with David Carroll, professor at Parsons College in New York who sued Cambridge Analytica to access data the group had on him.

Unfortunately, they did not discuss the Irish Government’s intention to appeal the Data Protection Commissioner’s decision on the Public Services Card which found the use of the card, which has been issued to more than three million citizens, for many Government services had no basis in law.

Mr Carroll is one of the main subjects of Netflix documentary The Great Hack and will be in Dublin tomorrow to speak at the Tech For Good conference.

He is attending the conference as a guest of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties which has vowed to fight the Government over its decision to appeal the Data Protection Commissioner’s report…

From their discussion…

Seán O’Rourke: “A lot of concern, obviously, about data being scraped from people who had not consented but I mean advertisers, surely, and politicians indeed, they’ve been collecting data about voters for a very long time, to target them and persuade them.”

David Carroll: “Yes the practice has been going on and it gets sort of, each election cycle, it gets more and more sophisticated, aggressive. The volume of data increases. The pace of technology  goes faster than any of us can even understand its roll-out. And so it’s the concern that the trajectory of this is to become increasingly aggressive unless we do something about this.

“The general concerns, related to the democratic process, are the general idea of are candidates choosing voters or are voters choosing candidates?

“And then are advertisements related to elections so precise and targeted to such small audiences that you’re not having a community-wide discussion about the issues that two neighbours or two members of one household are seeing totally different things? So, how could we possibly have a conversation about who we want to elect, or the issues that we are debating in our communities?”

Listen back in full here

Tech For Good conference (Eventbrite)

Earlier: Put It On The Card

Pic: Netflix

Mike Pence Goes 3 Hours Out Of His Way To Stay At Trump’s Irish Golf Resort (Huffington Post)

Meanwhile…

Lisa O’Carroll, of The Guardian, tweetz:

US ambassador to Irl Edward Crawford and Irish Ambassador to US Dan Mulhall Look on as Pence and Higgins sign book in SILENCE. If it wasn’t for the sound of photographers you’d have heard a pin drop.

Earlier…

US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence arriving at Dublin Airport.

Via Dublin Airport

Earlier: A Thousand Welcomes

Yesterday.

Spotted on Pottery Road in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.

Micheál tweetz:

“Not cool @Enterprise in Pottery Rd. DúnLaoghaire, Ireland, I counted 7 vehicles illegally dumped in the Cycle Lane… at school finishing time, forcing me and my kids (and others) out into the dangerous traffic.”

Daragh tweetz:

“New Low from @Enterprise on Pottery Road Today. Bad enough using adjacent streets as overflow car storage – now the bike lane is gone as well.”

Free the cycle lanes!

‘A single BEDROOM available in one bedroom apartment MONDAY TILL FRIDAY ONLY ‘

IsMise writes:

I think that should say SITTING ROOM €570 to sleep in a communal area…but only Mon-Fri….

Apartment Share, Smithfield, Dublin 7 (Daft)

Senator Ivana Bacik

Brian Dineen takes issue with Mia de Faoite’s article supporting the 2017 Irish law criminalising the purchase of sex.

However, he has missed her crucial point about decriminalisation of the (mostly women) sellers of sex.

It is true that the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 did not repeal some ancillary offences that can criminalise those engaged in organised prostitution or in pimping, such as the offences of brothel-keeping or of living off the earnings of a prostitute.

Most rational people would agree that these clearly exploitative behaviours should remain criminal offences.

But the 2017 Act did repeal the critical provision in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 under which many individual women had been prosecuted for the offence of offering their services as a prostitute in a street or public place.

This change has effectively decriminalised the practice of selling sex in public, as we suggested on the Oireachtas Justice Committee which recommended the introduction of the 2017 law.

Mr Dineen also suggests that the criminalisation of the (almost invariably) men who buy sex has led to increased violence against women engaged in prostitution.

However, there is no evidence for this assertion.

Indeed, on the Oireachtas Justice Committee we heard strong evidence from Sweden that criminalising buyers can have a significant effect on reducing demand for prostitution and thereby reducing the harms caused to women through prostitution.

Mia de Faoite and others have spoken powerfully from their own personal experience about these harms, and about the grim reality of selling sex; it is inherently dangerous.

That is why, as legislators, we sought to tackle harm through reducing demand.

Our law, like the 1999 Swedish law, is also premised upon the core principle of equality.

Laws that facilitate the purchase of sex undermine women’s equality by enabling men to buy sexual consent.

But if consent is bought, it is not freely chosen. Those who take issue with our 2017 law tend to overlook that reality.

Senator Ivana Bacik,
Seanad Éireann,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2.

Criminalising the purchase of sex (Irish Times letters page)

Alternatively…

Meanwhile…

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland tweetz:

We are looking for sex workers to participate in a study into the lived experiences of sex workers in the Republic of Ireland in relation to prostitution law, conducted by SWAI.

Please email linda@swai.eu if you are interested in talking to us

Sex Workers Alliance Ireland

Previously: “It Is An Extremely Dangerous Piece Of Legislation”

From top Then Fine Gael Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe launching the Public Service Card in 2016; Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty,

This morning.

The Data Protection Commissioner’s report [ which stated there is no legal basis for people having to present a PSC in respect of any transaction between a person and a public body outside the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection] led to calls for the resignation of Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty, whose department has overseen the project.

But now in a Government memo, jointly presented with the Department of Public Expenditure, Ms Doherty will tell Ministers that the Government is to fight the decision.

The Government will challenge the decision in court and defend the continued use of the card. They will also decline to publish the full report of the commissioner’s office.

Government to challenge order that public services card had no basis in law (Irish Times)

Previously: Regina Responds

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