On 21st & 22nd of January this year, the D4FLY consortium organised two workshop sessions in Amsterdam discussing the user requirements and the ethical, social and legal impact of the project’s solutions for identity and document verification.
The workshop was attended by representatives from most of the consortium partners as also people from the Stakeholders group (FRONTEX, SITA, Finnish Border Guard and National Police, European Passenger Federation, ADVP and Brussels Airport) and our Ethical and Legal Advisory Board.
On Day 1, we run a workshop on user needs, requirements and engagement strategies specification led by Laura Salmela from VTT as part of WP2 activities. The workshop started with a presentation on the analysis of the user survey results and pilot site visits observation data collected followed by group discussions on user needs, methodologies and objectives. A restricted access session followed on current and new threat analysis and vulnerability assessment in border control, led by NCSRD and TNO and involving only the relative task participants from the consortium. The next sessions focused on user requirements elicitation and the applicability of the use cases defined to actual operational settings.
On Day 2, another workshop took place led by Dr. Zachary Goldberg from Trilateral Research on Privacy concerns and Ethical Impact Assessment. The discussions started with an analysis of the data collection and management processes defining directions and good practices for ethics and privacy by design. Group exercise sessions followed involving mixed members from end-uses and technical partners form the consortium as also stakeholders. The group exercises goal was to identify risks that may arouse from the technologies and processes suggested and ways to overcome those.
On the 23rd of January, a project board plenary meeting took place presenting the current status of the project and foreseen activities for the next period.