Events | World Privacy Forum

Sep 20 2022

ABA Leadership Summit

WPF’s Executive Director will attend the American Bar Association’s Leadership Summit, to be held in Santa Fe New Mexico. This leadership summit is for those heading committees or a program of the ABA’s Antitrust and Consumer Protection section. WPF was invited to participate because Executive Director Pam Dixon was selected to co-chair the National Consumer

Sep 20 2022

HDC Research Academia and Technical Constituency, meeting

WPF’s Executive Director will be co-chairing the World Health Organization’s HDC RATNc meeting 4 August, 2022. This meeting is by invitation only. The meeting will be held in Geneva Switzerland and virtually.

Sep 20 2022

OECD Network of Experts on AI

WPF will be attending the OECD Network of Experts on AI Expert Group on tools and accountability for AI. The meeting is an ongoing working group meeting as part of the AIGO Working Party at OECD. When: 12 July 2022 Paris and Virtual

Sep 20 2022

Privacy Course; History of privacy thought, privacy by design; CMU

WPF’s Executive Director is teaching a summer privacy course at Carnegie Mellon University, co-taught with Aleecia McDonald (CMU professor) and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, (Professor of Law at iHub & iCIS Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands ). The course will begin with Dixon’s segment on privacy thought, history, legislation, and

Sep 20 2022

ID4Africa, Workshops Livecast

WPF participated in the ID4Africa 2022 Livecast EP32 event and gave an intervention and commentary on WPF’s participation in Workshop 2 on Identities and Borders, originally held in Marrakesh, Morocco. See the live cast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ivaCWKMWs (WPF Intervention begins at 2:44 )

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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.