Events | World Privacy Forum

Jul 15 2019

WPF presenting Privacy & Biometric Myths and Realities, Webinar

July 15 2019 WPF is presenting an hour and a half educational webinar on privacy and biometrics for the National Network to End Domestic Violence. The event is by invitation only, and is directed at individuals working directly with domestic violence services. NNEDV: Privacy & Biometric Myths and Realities, Webinar: please inquire for access details.

Jun 18 2019

Roundtable of African Data Protection Authorities, WPF Rapporteur, ID4AFRICA

The ID4Africa Movement is having its annual conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 18-20, 2019. WPF’s Pam Dixon will be the Rapporteur for the first Roundtable of African Data Protection Authorities, RADPA. This event will be moderated by Teki Falconer, Founder of Africa Digital Rights Hub, and former DPA of Ghana. Post-event note: The Rapporteur’s

Jun 11 2019

WPF presenting at ID Week London

11-13 June 2019 Identity Week London ExCel London, UK Pam Dixon will be moderating and speaking at Identity Week London. Moderator: Blockchain, identity, and privacy Plenary Panel: Global privacy and Identity trends https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/identity-week/index.stm

Jun 11 2019

WPF testifying before US Senate Banking Committee

Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, is testifying before the US Senate Banking Committee today on the topic of privacy, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, data brokers, and predictive analytics. “I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss our research and what we have documented about the privacy of Americans in a predictive analytics era,”

Apr 09 2019

WPF testifying at key FTC consumer privacy hearing re: privacy frameworks, data brokers, and potential solutions

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be testifying at 9 am, April 10, 2019 at the Federal Trade Commission hearing on consumer privacy and competition in the 21st century. WPF has submitted extensive testimony prior to the event, as well as a discussion bill. Event details: April 10, 2019 CONSTITUTION CENTER 400 7th St SW,

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.