Events | World Privacy Forum

Jun 11 2020

Webinar: Identification and Surveillance in a Post-COVID-19 World, WPF chairing

Pam Dixon will be chairing a panel on Identification and Surveillance in a Post-COVID19 World Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 7 am PDT/ 10 am EDT / 2 pm BST. This panel will explore issues related to health surveillance, contact tracing during the COVID-19 crisis, use of identity information, and the balancing of the need for

May 20 2020

IAPP Summit: WPF on “When Global Emergencies Threaten to Jeopardize Privacy Rights”

WPF’s Pam Dixon participated in a wide-ranging and vibrant conversation on the intersection between public health and privacy for the IAPP Summit Series, May 20, 2020. The session is now available on demand. When Global Emergencies Threaten to Jeopardize Privacy Rights Release Date: 5/20/2020 (On demand at: https://iapp.org/conference/virtual-sessions/summit-sessions/#!#summit-sessions) Moderator: Fred Cate, VP Research, Indiana University

May 18 2020

WPF participating in Oregon AG Privacy Task Force: Meeting Announcement

The Oregon Attorney General has convened a privacy task force with a Central Table of ten members to discuss privacy issues in the state of Oregon. WPF has been selected as a member of the Central Table, and will provide privacy expertise to the group. The next meeting of the Oregon AG privacy task force

May 15 2020

WHO advisory group meeting

Who: World Health Organization What: Advisory group meeting When: 15 and 18 May, 2020 This event was a non-public working group session.

May 04 2020

Webinar: Contact tracing, technology, and proportionality during lockdown

Executive Director Pam Dixon gave a one hour webinar 4 May 2020 on global contact tracing apps and technology focusing on case studies in the US, UK, India, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, and other jurisdictions. Recommendations and lessons learned are included, as well as audience questions. Event: Festival of Identity Free Webinar Series Webinar: Proportionate

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.