WPF March 2018 Privacy Events

WPF will be speaking and/or participating in the following events this March. Please join us, or let us know if you will be attending.

March 6:

Medical ID Theft Update, IPPC U.S. Working Group

Executive Director Pam Dixon is presenting a webinar to members of the IPPC US Working Group. The webinar, to be held at the monthly meeting, will cover what medical identity theft is, how the crime operates (with new research on this), where the crime operates (also with new research), and discussion of solutions going forward. The webinar will include time for questions and answers.

What: Medical ID Theft Update by Pam Dixon
Who: IPPC US Working Group
Where: Webinar

March 23:

Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum Silicon Valley

WPF will be participating at the annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum, to be held this year 23 March 2018 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California.
Topics include:
•the global diffusion (or not) of EU data protection principles;
•new requirements for the explainability of algorithms; and
•the possibility that antitrust principles can be used to address concerns around market power and privacy.

For more information, see 2018 BCLT Privacy Law Forum. This event is open to the public.

March 26, 27:

KNOW Identity Conference

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be speaking at the KNOW Identity Conference in Washington DC this year. The panel topic is Managing Trust in a Sharing Economy. The event will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.

Panel Details:
•Tuesday 27 March 2018
•10:30 – 11:20
•Managing Trust in a Sharing Economy
•Panelists: Ajay Yadav CEO at Roomi, Pam Dixon Executive Director at World Privacy Forum, Andreas Zodhiates Manager, Fraud and Risk at Lyft, Lucien de Voux Director, Digital Economy at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Annie Lin Vice President at Identity.com, Alexander Martin CEO at AC Global Risk
For more information about this event, see the KNOW Identity 2018 Conference details. This event is open to the public.

March 27:

Noon meeting with the European Data Protection Supervisor, invitation only.

March 28:

Transatlantic perspectives on Fintech Innovation and Regulation Symposium

The Fintech Innovation and Regulation Symposium will be held in NYC, March 28, 2018. This symposium provides the opportunity to discuss approaches and perspectives on a wide range of technological issues related to the US and European FinTech ecosystems: blockchain, digital identity, artificial intelligence, cyber security, privacy, and more. This is an invitation-only event.

Posted March 15, 2018 in Events and Conferences, News, Press, and Media, Privacy News

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.