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Jan 19 2023

WHO HDC Meeting

Meeting: World Health Organization Health Data Collaborative WPF is co-chair of WHO’s Research, Academia, andTechnical Constituency, which will meet 19 January to discuss the 2023 workplan as well as the forthcoming mission to Nepal regarding CRVS and GIS systems.

Jan 18 2023

OECD Network of Experts on AI: Expert group on tools & accountability

Meeting: OECD, Network of Experts of AI, Expert group on tools and accountability When: 18 January 2023 Where: Virtual More information: WPF is a member of this expert group representing civil society (CSISAC) . The work from this expert group is published in the OECD AI Observatory under the Tools & Accountability project. See: Tools

Dec 10 2022

OECD Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting

The World Privacy Forum with ADC have been designated as the Civil Society Heads of Delegation for the OECD Ministerial. Pam Dixon, Executive Director of WPF and Valeria Milanes, Executive Director of ADC will be the delegates on site in Gran Canaria. For this event, WPF and ADC have collaborated on a global research project

Oct 05 2022

WHO Constituency Meeting, WPF co-chair

Who: World Health Organization What: Meeting of constituency groups; Pam Dixon (WPF) and Kathleen Gallagher (CDC) co-chairs When: 6 October 2022 Where: Virtual The WHO is convening a meeting to update the broader constituency in research, academia, and technical networks regarding the outputs of the in-person meeting of stakeholder leadership that took place in Geneva,

Oct 03 2022

OECD Roundtable: WPF expert member and participant, Cross-Border Cooperation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy

WPF is a member of OECD’s Expert Group that is evaluating and updating OECD’s Recommendation on Cross-Border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy. To inform this review, OECD has invited Data Protection Authorities and other key experts to participate in a multi-stakeholder Roundtable on Cross-Border Cooperation. The Roundtable experts will help guide the OECD’s discussions

New Report: Risky Analysis: Assessing and Improving AI Governance Tools

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new WPF report, “Risky Analysis: Assessing and Improving AI Governance Tools.” This report sets out a definition of AI governance tools, documents why and how these tools are critically important for trustworthy AI, and where these tools are around the world. The report also documents problems in some AI governance tools themselves, and suggests pathways to improve AI governance tools and create an evaluative environment to measure their effectiveness. AI systems should not be deployed without simultaneously evaluating the potential adverse impacts of such systems and mitigating their risks, and most of the world agrees about the need to take precautions against the threats posed. The specific tools and techniques that exist to evaluate and measure AI systems for their inclusiveness, fairness, explainability, privacy, safety and other trustworthiness issues — called in the report collectively AI governance tools – can improve such issues. While some AI governance tools provide reassurance to the public and to regulators, the tools too often lack meaningful oversight and quality assessments. Incomplete or ineffective AI governance tools can create a false sense of confidence, cause unintended problems, and generally undermine the promise of AI systems. The report contains rich background details, use cases, potential solutions to the problems discussed in the report, and a global index of AI Governance Tools.
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Report: From the Filing Cabinet to the Cloud: Updating the Privacy Act of 1974

This comprehensive report and proposed bill text is focused on the Privacy Act of 1974, an important and early Federal privacy law that applies to the government sector and some contractors. The Privacy Act was written for the 1970s information era -- an era that was characterized by the use of mainframe computers and filing cabinets. Today's digital information era looks much different than the '70s: smart phones are smarter than the old mainframes, and documents are now routinely digitized and stored and perhaps even analyzed in the cloud, among many other changes. The report focuses on why the Privacy Act needs an update that will bring it into this century, and how that could look and work. This work was written by Robert Gellman, and informed by a two-year multi-stakeholder process.