Events | World Privacy Forum

Jun 10 2022

Testimony on AI and Machine Learning regulation before the Brazilian Senate, International Seminar

WPF has been invited to speak before the Brazilian Senate on the topic of the challenge of regulatory models for AI and Machine Learning systems. WPF Executive Director will be testifying as an expert in this informational session; she was a delegate in creating the OECD AI Guidelines, and she currently co-leads the civil society

Jun 07 2022

OECD Expert Group meeting re: Cross – Border Cooperation, WPF delegate

OECD 1st Expert Group meeting; Cross – Border Cooperation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy 7 June 2022 | 2-3:30 pm, CET Paris, France and virtual The World Privacy Forum has been selected as a civil society delegate for OECD’s revision of its Recommendation on Cross-Border Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy. WPF is a delegate on

Jun 07 2022

Oregon AG Privacy Task Force: Meeting Announcement

WPF is a member of the Oregon Attorney General’s Central Table Privacy Task Force. We will be attending the Oregon AG meeting to be held 6 June, 2022. Meeting: Oregon DOJ, Date and Time: 6 June 2022, 1 pm. This meeting is open to relevant stakeholders. For more information, contact the Oregon Department of Justice.

May 11 2022

OECD Going Digital Horizontal Project: Workshop, WPF speaker

WPF’s Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting at an upcoming OECD Workshop on the topic of data stewardship, access, sharing, and control in regards to national data strategies. WPF is a organizational member of the formal civil society stakeholder group at OECD. (CSISAC). More details: From Data Stewardship, Access, Sharing and Control to National

Mar 01 2022

OECD AI Network of Experts; Meeting

WPF will be attending the 16th meeting of the OECD.AI Network of Experts working group on implementing trustworthy AI. It will take place Wednesday, 2 March at 17:00 – 18:30 CET. WPF will be attending the meeting as a civil society stakeholder, part of OECD’s formal civil society stakeholder group, CSISAC.

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.