Events | World Privacy Forum

Nov 18 2019

OECD Committee on Digital Economic Policy meeting, WPF delegate

Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, is an expert advisor to the OECD on AI and a delegate of the AI Expert Group (AIGO). This group was tasked to prepare an initial draft of multinational consensus principles on AI. The AIGO has finished their work, and now WPF is representing civil society in the Committee

Nov 12 2019

WPF testimony before NCVHS regarding emerging health privacy concerns

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will testify before the full committee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) regarding emerging privacy concerns in the healthcare environment, including the role of artificial intelligence, patient authorizations, and automated access to patient health information. The NCVHS is the statutory [42 U.S.C. 242k(k)] public advisory body

Oct 28 2019

Biometrics Institute Congress, WPF presenting

Executive Director Pam Dixon will be speaking at the Biometrics Institute Congress during Biometrics Week, October 28-30. “I am pleased to be speaking at the international biometrics Congress regarding the vital issue of ethics and social impact of biometrics,” said Pam Dixon. “Biometrics are increasingly used in everyday situations, and are having equally increasing impacts.”

Oct 18 2019

WPF/Brookings Biometric Roundtable at ICDPPC

The World Privacy Forum and the Brookings Institution will co-host a Biometric Roundtable Wednesday, October 23 at the International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners’ Conference in Tirana, Albania. Cam Kerry of Brookings and Pam Dixon of WPF will co-moderate the discussion. The purpose of the Biometrics Roundtable is to promote a dialogue between the data

Oct 18 2019

Pam Dixon to speak at EDPS event at 41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

The European Data Protection Supervisor is holding an event on digital rights and the climate crisis at ICDPPC Tuesday, 22 October in Tirana, Albania. Participants include Pam Dixon, WPF, Patricia Poku, DPA of Ghana, Christian d’Cuhna, Head of Private Office, EDPS (Moderator), Rumman Chowdhury, Responsible AI lead, Accenture, Michael O’Flaherty, Director Fundamental Rights Agency. When:

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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.
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.