The World Privacy Forum is pleased to announce the agenda and speakers for a half-day tutorial on 28 February, 2025 for the international IEEE Computer Vision Conference, to be held this year in Tucson, Arizona. This tutorial presents advanced privacy research and analysis in the intersection of Computer Vision and governance and privacy, with a
Video and blog post by WPF Founder and Executive Director Pam Dixon commemorating International ID Day 2024, discussing the importance of ensuring legal identity for all people, and the equal importance of ensuring that identity systems and ecosystems Do no Harm and are built so they cannot do harm now, nor in the future.
The World Privacy Forum is pleased to announce that it has joined more than 200 of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI. Established by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in February 2024, the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) brings together AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations to meet this mission.
5 April 2024, Paris, France — World Privacy Forum Executive Director Pam Dixon has been invited to speak at the State House of Mongolia for the Government of Mongolia’s National Consultation on e-Health. She will be speaking twice at this event; first, on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and second, on Big Data in e-Health. She will be presenting later in the week on AI governance and Privacy before the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications, and on the topic of AI Governance Tools before the National Human Rights Commission of Mongolia. All speeches will take place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The World Privacy Forum has filed detailed comments to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in response to its Request for Information on Privacy Impact Assessments. Specifically, OMB requested information about how the U.S. Federal government should update or adjust its requirements for Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) in regards to changes to data ecosystems brought about by Artificial Intelligence (AI). WPF provided substantive recommendations regarding administrative provisions of the Privacy Act, scalable automated AI governance tools for privacy and trustworthy AI, ensuring nimble processes for privacy and AI assessments, and ensuring balanced, skillful socio-legal-technical decisionmaking.