OECD

Dec 10 2021

WPF executive director voted in as member of OECD civil society steering committee

After many years of participating as a civil society delegate at OECD, WPF’s executive director Pam Dixon has been voted onto the steering committee for OECD’s civil society arm, CSISAC. “It is an honor to be voted in by my fellow members of civil society to the CSISAC steering committee, and I am looking forward

Mar 15 2019

OECD draft Council Recommendation of AI is now final

WPF is pleased to announce that after more than two years of work, the OECD draft Council Recommendation on Artificial intelligence is now final. The draft now becomes the OECD Guidelines on AI. The final meeting took place in Paris, Friday 15 March at OECD headquarters, where the CDEP Committee adopted the Guidelines at approximately

Jun 15 2015

WPF Executive Director named to OECD health privacy advisory group

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2015 San Diego — Pam Dixon, Executive Director of the World Privacy Forum, has been named to an OECD Advisory Group that will help guide the development of the draft OECD Council recommendations on privacy-protective approaches for the use of health data. This work will be pursued under the umbrella of

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New 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.
COVID-19 and HIPAA: HHS’s Troubled Approach to Waiving Privacy and Security Rules for the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic strained the U.S. health ecosystem in numerous ways, including putting pressure on the HIPAA privacy and security rules. The Department of Health and Human Services adjusted the privacy and security rules for the pandemic through the use of statutory and administrative HIPAA waivers. While some of the adjustments are appropriate for the emergency circumstances, there are also some meaningful and potentially unwelcome privacy and security consequences. At an appropriate time, the use of HIPAA waivers as a response to health care emergencies needs a thorough review. This report sets out the facts, identifies the issues, and proposes a roadmap for change.