Events | World Privacy Forum

Mar 09 2017

FTC FinTech Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, WPF presenting

WPF’s Executive Director Pam Dixon is presenting at the US Federal Trade Commission’s Forum on AI Feb. 9, 2017 at the Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA. The panel included the following experts: Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum Rayid Ghani, Director, Center for Data Science & Public Policy, University of Chicago Deirdre Mulligan, Associate Professor,

Jan 25 2017

WPF to present at Sackler US-UK Scientific Forum on Frontiers of Machine Learning

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will present a lecture on privacy, ethics, machine learning, and society at the Sackler Forum Feb. 1 in Washington, DC. The Sackler forum is jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society and was established to help the scientific leadership of the U.K. and the U.S.

Jan 03 2017

CES 2017

WPF Media Fellow Blake Hamilton and Executive Director Pam Dixon will be attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We will be looking at new technology on the show floor, and attending multiple day-long seminars focused on specific technology areas. CES is the largest event showcasing the newest products and trends in consumer technology. Our

Nov 29 2016

Privacy and Design Salon, Pacific Northwest College of Art, WPF speaking

This Wednesday at 5:30 the Pacific Northwest College of Art is hosting an informal conversation on designing workable and just digital privacy systems and policies in the Collaborative Design studio with Pam Dixon of World Privacy Forum, and Dawn Nafus, Senior Research Scientist at Intel as well as members of the Collaborative Design faculty. Some of the topics

Oct 27 2016

Defining Fairness workshop, Harvard University, WPF moderating

WPF executive director Pam Dixon will be moderating a portion of the Defining Fairness workshop on algorithms, technical processes, and fairness convened by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University. What: Defining Fairness: On the Sociotechnical Algorithms and Systems of the Future

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.