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Oct 05 2022

WHO Constituency Meeting, WPF co-chair

Who: World Health Organization What: Meeting of constituency groups; Pam Dixon (WPF) and Kathleen Gallagher (CDC) co-chairs When: 6 October 2022 Where: Virtual The WHO is convening a meeting to update the broader constituency in research, academia, and technical networks regarding the outputs of the in-person meeting of stakeholder leadership that took place in Geneva,

Oct 03 2022

OECD Roundtable: WPF expert member and participant, Cross-Border Cooperation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy

WPF is a member of OECD’s Expert Group that is evaluating and updating OECD’s Recommendation on Cross-Border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy. To inform this review, OECD has invited Data Protection Authorities and other key experts to participate in a multi-stakeholder Roundtable on Cross-Border Cooperation. The Roundtable experts will help guide the OECD’s discussions

Sep 21 2022

OECD Committee on Digital and Economic Policy, fall meeting, WPF participant

The OECD will be holding its fall CDEP meetings 27-28 September, 2022. The event will be virtual only. WPF is a formal stakeholder member of OECD through CSISAC, and is on the Steering Committee of CSISAC. WPF’s Pam Dixon will be making interventions on certain agenda topics during the meeting. What: OECD fall CDEP meetings

Sep 21 2022

WHO Stakeholders Representatives in-person meeting

The World Health Organization’s Stakeholder’s Representatives Group (SRG) and Working Group Co-chairs will meet in person 28-29 September for the first time in four years. The SDG GAP Data and Digital (D+D) multilateral and Global Health Initiative members are also represented. This meeting provides an opportunity for all members, through their constituency representatives, to review

Sep 20 2022

OECD Network of Experts on AI, joint working group meeting

WPF will participate in a working group meeting of the AI Classification & Risk working group and the Tools & Accountability AI working group. Pam Dixon is the civil society (CSISAC) co-chair for the AIGO Working Party at OECD, and has been working in the AI Tools & Accountability working group for more than 2

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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.