Events | World Privacy Forum

Apr 16 2018

Biometrics Institute GDPR & biometrics seminar, WPF moderating

WPF executive director Pam Dixon will be moderating a Biometrics Institute seminar in Brussels 17 April on implications and implementation of the GDPR. The event will be held at the Office of the Spanish National Research Council, 7th Floor, Room 3, Rue du Trône 62, 1050 Brussels. The event is from 1:30-5:30 pm. To attend

Apr 05 2018

American Law Institute, Principles of the Law, Data Privacy project meeting, WPF participant

WPF is participating in the American Law Institute meeting for its Data Privacy Law project. The event will be held 5 April, 2018, from 8 am – 5 pm. Project Reporters: Dan Solove Paul Schwartz Meeting Location: Fairmont Washington, D.C. Updated Meeting Location: Ballroom I 2401 M St. NW, Washington, DC 20037 MATERIALS: Preliminary Draft

Mar 15 2018

KNOW Identity Conference, WPF speaker on trust in a sharing economy

WPF Executive Director will be speaking at the KNOW Identity Conference in Washington DC this year. The panel topic is Managing Trust in a Sharing Economy. The event will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Panel Details: Tuesday 27 March 2018 10:30 – 11:20 Managing Trust in a Sharing Economy

Mar 15 2018

Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum Silicon Valley, WPF participant

WPF will be participating at the annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum, to be held this year 23 March 2018 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California. From the brochure….Topics will include: the global diffusion (or not) of EU data protection principles; new requirements for the explainability of algorithms; and the possibility that antitrust

Mar 04 2018

Medical ID Theft Update, IPPC U.S. Working Group, webinar

Executive Director Pam Dixon is presenting an invitation-only webinar to members of the IPPC US Working Group. The webinar, to be held at the monthly meeting, will cover what medical identity theft is, how the crime operates (with new research on this), where the crime operates (also with new research), and discussion of potential solutions

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.