An impressive digital short by Serbian animator Sava Zivkovic in which a beautifully modelled humanoid is tasked with feeding a red stone into a hungry mouth protruding from the wall of the cave where he lives
Behind the scenes process here.
We’re delighted to take part in a trial that uses biometrics to help passengers seamlessly travel between two airports.
Details here: https://t.co/W19SER8VbD pic.twitter.com/9x53EmNKDr— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) March 27, 2019
Hi there. Has a data protection impact assessment been done for this trial? The trial appears to involve processing for which @DPCIreland has determined a DPIA is mandatory under A35 GDPR.
— Rossa McMahon (@rossamcmahon) March 27, 2019
Yes. We have started a DPIA for the public element of this trial, which has yet to begin.
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) March 27, 2019
It’s starting next month, so I assume it has already been planned. Why has the DPIA only been “started”? Shouldn’t it have been finished before deciding to go ahead with the trial?
— Rossa McMahon (@rossamcmahon) March 27, 2019
Can you confirm whether there is another element to the trial apart from the “public element”?
Is facial recognition being used or planned for staff/contractors?
— Rossa McMahon (@rossamcmahon) March 27, 2019
The DPIA is part of privacy by design which is embedded within our project approach. This trial, which has yet to begin, is for flights to Bristol, so no it is not being used for staff or contractors.
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) March 27, 2019
How can the approach have privacy by design embedded in it if the project has been designed before doing a DPIA? (Also they are separate things.)
— Rossa McMahon (@rossamcmahon) March 27, 2019
Hi, Rossa, if you have specific further questions in relation to data privacy issues can you please email your query to customerexperience@dublinairport.com and one of our experts in this area will respond. Thanks.
— Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) March 27, 2019
This afternoon.
Exchanges between the person manning Dublin Airport’s Twitter account and solicitor Rossa McMahon – after the airport announced it will be taking part in a “biometrics trial”.
Dublin Airport Participates In Biometrics Trial (Dublin Airport)
The Dublin-based online raffle site.
You may recall its ‘soft launch‘ before Xmas.
Founder Jonny O’Malley writes:
We’ve had a bit more work done on the site and made an explainer video (above) plus we have some cool raffles from Vantastival, Swords Ink and a trip to Slovakia…
Raffle for 2 x Weekend Camping tickets for Vantastival – all proceeds of this raffle will go to “Drogheda Women’s and Children’s Refuge”. Tickets are €10 each and there are only 20 tickets for this raffle, an awesome prize for an awesome festival.
Raffle for a tattoo voucher worth €500 at Swords Ink. This is a 50/50 raffle with half the proceeds going to “Pieta House” Tickets for this raffle are €10 each and there are only 50 tickets to be sold, Swords Ink have a number of awesome tattoo artist for you to choose from.
Raffle for 7 nights accommodation at Liptov Skiing Lodge in Jansa Slovakia for you and 10 of your friends, you basically take over the ski lodge for a week, there is a private Irish bar in the lodge just for you and your friends and pints are as cheap as chips at under €1.50 each, think of the craic to be had. Tickets are only €5.00 and there are only 300 tickets to be sold so get your mates to snap up a few to be in with a chance to get a savage week away together in Slovakia.
Previously: Don’t Sell It, Raffle It
CervicalCheck logo; a letter a woman received in early February informing her she needed to have a repeat smear test as a consequence of a test she had in the summer of 2016
In January, it emerged that thousands of women were to be written to and advised to return to their GPs for repeat smear tests.
This was in relation to a cohort of women who would have initially tested positive for low-grade abnormalities after having a smear, between 2015 and 2018, and who would have then been advised to have an additional HPV test within 30 days of the initial smear test.
In the cases of these women, the HPV test on the smears were carried out by Quest Diagnostics beyond the 30-day limit.
By the end of January, the HSE wrote to 4,459 women about this situation and invited them to have a repeat smear.
This afternoon it’s emerged that, since February 8 last, 2,572 of these repeat smears were sent for testing and just 200, or 7%, of them have been rechecked.
This means around 2,370 women are still waiting for their repeat test results.
In addition, the repeat tests were sent to… Quest Diagnostics.
More than 2,300 women still waiting for repeat smear test results (RTE)
Over 2,300 women waiting on repeat smear test results (Newstalk)
Previously: CervicalCheck And Expired Smear Tests Rendered Invalid
Summer Shift
at
This morning.
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
The cast of Copper Face Jacks: The Musical in and out of costume celebrate their Olympia Theatre extension – “extra summer shows have been added due to phenomenal public demand”.
Packed full of “craic, huge laughs, culchies, Dubs and lots of shifting” the musical will return to the Olympia Theatre from July 10 until August 10. From left: Roseanna Purcell , Michele McGrath, Johnny Ward, Rachel O’Connell and Kelly Marie Ni Cheallaigh.
Copper Face Jacks; The Musical
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Hugh O’Connell tweetz:
The @IrexitFreedom Party launching these billboards around Dublin today
Previously: Vote Mairead
Mr Worm
at
A stop-motion paper-cut animation by Seen Film made for the all-string cover of Bjork’s ‘Venus As A Boy’ by the Vitamin String Quartet.
At the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam; Minister for Children Katherine Zappone; Sr Marie Ryan, of the Bon Secours in Ireland
Yesterday.
Right to Know journalist Ken Foxe published a “strictly private and confidential” letter sent from the leader of the Bon Secours in Ireland Sr Marie Ryan to the Minister of Children Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone last August.
The letter concerned the Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway, where the State issued 796 death certificates for children but burial records only for two.
The home closed in 1961.
The letter to the minister was written in response to Ms Zappone asking to meet with members of the order so they could discuss the Tuam home and how the order could share, with the State, the “cost implications” of the current investigations at the home after “significant quantities of human remains” were confirmed to have been found at the home two years ago.
Sr Ryan, on behalf of the nuns, told Ms Zappone they were surprised she asked to meet with them while the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is ongoing.
The nun then went on to firmly state that the Tuam home was operated on behalf of the Irish Government.
Sr Ryan wrote:
“This was an institution created and operated by the Irish state.”
“Given the passage of time, it certainly appears to us, that the Home was not only under the stewardship of the Sisters at that time but under the supervision, direction and inspection of the local authority Galway County Council and also the Department of Health.”
She also said after the home closed in 1961, the nuns sent “all documentation” and “official Home Records” to Galway County Council and that the nuns haven’t had “full and open access” to these records which are now with the commission.
She said it seems Galway County Council were involved in paying for a doctor and a chaplain at the home and that Department of Health inspectors inspected the home.
Sr Ryan added:
“The deaths of the infants were registered at that time and it would seem to us that it would follow that Galway County Council, the Department of Health and the doctor employed by the local authority for the Home would have been fully aware of the fact of these deaths and no doubt then would have been aware that burial arrangements would have to be made for the remains.”
Mr Foxe tweeted the following on the correspondence:
Previously: The Wages Of Spin