ABA Consumer Protection Conference 8-9 February in San Diego, CA: WPF co-hosting

WPF is delighted to announce that WPF’s Executive Director Pam Dixon is co-chairing the American Bar Association’s National Consumer Protection Conference with Chris Olsen, formerly in the FTC’s Consumer Protection Bureau and now a partner at Wilson Sonsini. The conference will be hosted in San Diego 8-9 February, at the Westgate Hotel.

Conference registration and more information

Highlights:

California Attorney General Bob Bonta is speaking on Day One to kick off the conference. FTC Northwest Regional Director Charles Harwood, former FTC Bureau Director Andrew Smith, former FTC Deputy Bureau Director Andrew Stivers, DOJ Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer Peter Winn, the Honorable Yvonne Gonzales Rogers, and a whole host of luminaries and experts will be speaking.

We will cover all the hot topics in consumer protection and privacy in CLE panels with privacy and data luminaries:

State Privacy Legislation with key experts who are at the negotiating table
Dark Commercial Patterns with experts on the front lines of the issue
The latest thinking from state and federal enforcers – from leading enforcers
Health Privacy post-Dobbs with health privacy experts from multiple areas of health
Consumer financial protection, update post-pandemic with leading financial protection experts
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning from luminaries working at the intersection of consumers and AI/ML : what are the key things we all need to be thinking about right now?
and more

Non-profit organizations may apply for a waiver of their registration fee; please contact WPF on how to register if you are an NGO.

Send an email to info@worldprivacyforum.org with your request.

Posted January 26, 2023 in Consumer Privacy, Event Announcement, Events and Conferences

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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