Events | World Privacy Forum

Apr 09 2019

AEI: Perspectives on data privacy from the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice

AEI, Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm WPF panelist AEI Auditorium 1789 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036 Consumers and firms have enthusiastically embraced the digital world. However, data breaches, intrusive web tracking, and the opaque nature of data usage across platforms have caused anxiety and uncertainty for consumers and policymakers.

Mar 24 2019

WPF speaking on ABA panel with FTC Commissioner Slaughter, Privacy Commissioner of Hong Kong Stephen K. Wong, and others

WPF ED Pam Dixon will be speaking at the ABA spring meeting on the issue of national and international privacy frameworks from the US to India to Europe. She will be joining a panel of national and international privacy luminaries. Thursday March 28, ABA Spring Meeting, Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC. 3:15

Mar 24 2019

WPF Moderating Biometrics & Privacy Frameworks Panel for the Biometric Institute Spring Meeting

Pam Dixon, WPF ED, will be moderating a panel on biometrics and data and privacy protection frameworks at the spring meeting of the Biometrics Institute Tuesday, March 26 at 11:50 am. The focus will be an expert discussion of Federal and state privacy and biometric legislation in the US, including new developments and approaches to principles

Mar 14 2019

OECD Committee on Digital Economic Policy meeting, WPF delegate

Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, is an expert advisor to the OECD on AI and a delegate of the AI Expert Group (AIGO). This group was tasked to prepare an initial draft of multinational consensus principles on AI. The AIGO has finished their work, and now WPF is representing civil society in the Committee on

Feb 09 2019

IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence, WPF Delegate

Plenary and meeting, Saturday, 9 February 2019 Dubai, UAE The IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence is holding a meeting and plenary session regarding artificial intelligence, identity, and other related issues. The CEI work regarding protecting digital identity intersects with WPF’s work; see our recent presentation on digital ID at Harvard Shorenstein Center (PDF) See IEEE Council on

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.