July 2022 Download a PDF The World Privacy Forum publishes and maintains A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA, which is a plain language explanation of how to use the law to guard your health privacy. This companion FAQ on HIPAA is focused on reproductive health privacy in response to the many questions we are receiving from

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 Pam Dixon 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

The World Privacy Forum has been selected as a civil society delegate for the OECD Expert Group that will be revising the Recommendation on Cross-Border Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy. WPF is a delegate on behalf of CSISAC (CSISAC is the formal Civil society stakeholder group at OECD). The original OECD Recommendation was published and ratified

WPF has urged HHS to clarify the intersection between HIPAA compliance and harms resulting from medical identity theft in its response to the Request for Information from the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding implementation of the HITECH Act. WPF has a long history of work on the issue of medical identity theft, which has informed its response to HHS.

One of the most common questions we receive is: what does HIPAA compliant mean? Well.. If a company or entity or health app is not covered by HIPAA, it may still say that it is “HIPAA compliant.” HIPAA compliant does not mean the same thing as being a HIPAA- covered entity. If you see the