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Nov 15 2020

Keynote: Modern Digital Identity Ecosystems

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon gave a keynote speech to a global audience attending the Seamless Middle East conference, held in the Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai. Seamless Middle East: Nov. 15-17, 2020 Keynote: Digital Identity Ecosystems keynote, Pam Dixon This keynote traces the history and development of digital identity over time, and how digital identity

Oct 28 2020

WPF executive director Pam Dixon to present lecture at National Academy of Sciences on the future of data science and privacy

Executive Director Pam Dixon to present a featured lecture at National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine at its Colloquium: The Future of Data Science Pam Dixon’s lecture will be Wednesday October 28 from 12:00-12:45 am Eastern. The lecture focuses on forthcoming and converging trends, and is titled Looking Ten Years Ahead: Key Converging Technologies in Computing, Data, and

Sep 21 2020

WPF a panelist at FTC Data Portability Workshop

Pam Dixon will be a panelist at the FTC Data Portability Workshop, to take place Tuesday, Sept. 22, 8:30 am – 3 pm Eastern Time.

Sep 15 2020

WPF presenting on COVID-19 and identity at OECD – GPA Workshop

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting at an OECD and Global Privacy Assembly workshop on the risks, challenges, and potential solutions regarding the intersection of COVID-19 and the uses of identity in a public health crisis. Event details: COVID-19 and privacy virtual Workshop on “The road to recovery: Lessons learned and challenges ahead”, hosted by

Jul 30 2020

ID4Africa, Spotlight on Unique Digital Identity Numbers

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon participated as a community member in the ID4Africa Livecast July 23, 2020. The livecast was moderated by ID4Africa Chairman Joseph Atick. From ID4Africa: Spotlight on Unique ID Numbers Ongoing debates surrounding Unique Digital Identity Numbers have in recent months been driven to the forefront of Africa’s identity agenda as governments

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.
National IDs Around the World — Interactive map

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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.