DNA Lecture schedule for GGI2018 Dublin
Genetic Genealogy Ireland returns to the RDS in Ballsbridge, Dublin from 19th to 21st October 2018. Admission is free by simply registering at www.backtoourpast.ie . Once again the lectures are kindly sponsored by FamilyTreeDNA and organised by volunteers from ISOGG . And this year a whole new stream of lectures is being added to the lineup - privacy, data protection & ethics. This is a timely addition to the programme. The past year has seen the introduction of GDPR ( General Data Protection Regulation - the new EU law introduced on May 25th) and as a result there have been sweeping changes to privacy and data protection which have had a huge impact on the way all companies operate. It has also had some pretty devastating effects on the genetic genealogy community with the loss of the WorldFamilies.net website (and all the Surname Projects hosted there), the closure of genetic databases ( Ysearch , mitoSearch ) and the barring of EU residents from accessing products...