Events | World Privacy Forum

Jan 27 2020

WPF’s Pam Dixon presenting at Duke University on Data Privacy Day

WPF’s Pam Dixon will be at Duke University Friday, January 31 for Data Privacy Day to discuss new World Privacy Forum research and policy work with students, faculty, and privacy luminaries. The event is focused on fostering an in-depth conversation throughout the day with Duke students and faculty. Duke University Dean Ravi Bellamkonda and Dean

Jan 07 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

Jan 05 2020

WPF keynote “Privacy from an International Perspective” at Conference on Data Protection Today, Breaking the Iceberg, hosted by the Mauritius Data Protection Office

Mauritius Data Protection Conference, January 2020 WPF ED Pam Dixon is honored to be presenting a keynote speech on Privacy from an International Perspective at the Conference on Data Protection Today, Breaking the Iceberg. The conference is hosted by the Mauritius Data Protection Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Technology, Communication, and Innovation. The

Dec 12 2019

FTC and Washington State Office of the Attorney General: Protecting Northwest Consumers, A Common Ground Conference — WPF speaker

WPF will be speaking at the joint FTC and Washington State AG consumer protection conference on the topic of privacy and vulnerable consumers. The conference will be held Thursday, December 12 -13, 2019 800 5th Ave., Suite 2000, Seattle, WA. The Federal Trade Commission, the offices of the Attorneys General of Washington, Alaska and Idaho,

Dec 11 2019

WPF participating in Oregon AG Privacy Task Force: Meeting Announcement

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.
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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.