News Release: Online Job Scams are Still Alive and Thriving

February 10, 2013

Online Job Seekers, Still Beware of Scams!

Today the Augusta Chronicle published a story by Jenna Martin quoting World Privacy Forum’s Pam Dixon about job seekers and how important it is for them to be wary of online job scams. “I am concerned that we are still seeing serious cases of people being victimized by scammers while they are looking for work online,” said Pam Dixon. “There are some key safety tips every job seeker should know about as part of basic online job search training.”

WPF has numerous tips for consumers about job searching. Some of the key tips for avoiding job scams include:

1. Never give personal bank account, PayPal, or credit card numbers to an employer you are just interviewing with.
2. Never agree to have funds or paychecks direct deposited to any of your accounts by a new or untested employer.
3. Never forward, transfer, or “wire” money to an employer.
4. Do not transfer money and retain a portion for payment as salary for your job.

Links for more information:

Read the article: Scammers at work: Job seekers should be wary of online offers, by Jenna Martin.
See our Job Search Privacy Page, Tips, and Report
See our Job Scams Page, Tips, and Report
See our Consumer Tips to Avoid Job Scams

Posted February 10, 2013 in Job Scams, Job Search Privacy, News, Press, and Media, Online Privacy

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.

News Release: Online Job Scams are Still Alive and Thriving

Online Job Seekers, Still Beware of Scams!

Links for more information:

Read the article: Scammers at work: Job seekers should be wary of online offers, by Jenna Martin.

See our Job Search Privacy Page, Tips, and Report

See our Job Scams Page, Tips, and Report

See our Consumer Tips to Avoid Job Scams