Events | World Privacy Forum

Mar 15 2016

WPF presenting seminar on digital signage privacy

Pam Dixon will be presenting a one-hour seminar on privacy standards and developments and what they mean for digital signage at the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. DSE is the largest gathering of digital signage experts in the world. The seminar will cover key laws, new developments in privacy, and practical takeaways for assessing

Jan 26 2016

WPF’s Pam Dixon Presenting Keynote Speech at 17th Annual Canadian Privacy Conference

Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting a keynote talk at the 17th Annual Privacy & Security Conference in Victoria, Canada on the topic of big data analytics. She will also be speaking on two panels, one on big data, and one on the European – US Safe Harbor agreement. The conference is February 3-5.

Jan 18 2016

Indiana University workshop on health research privacy, WPF participant

WPF will participate in an Indiana University / Triangle Privacy Research Hub workshop on the issue of health research, privacy, and independent oversight boards. The workshop will review a new study on health research regulation, and will cover the spectrum of issues relating to IRBs. The workshop will be held at the Duke University campus,

Jan 18 2016

Harvard Workshop on Technology Science Research, WPF participant

WPF’s Pam Dixon is participating in a workshop hosted by Harvard professor Dr. Latanya Sweeney. The workshop is focused on technology science problems in the public interest. An outcome of the workshop is launching a new Technology Science Research Collaboration Network. The workshop and research efforts are an outgrowth of the newly-launched Journal of Technology Science

Dec 14 2015

WPF keynote and seminar on scoring in Beijing, China

WPF will be presenting a seminar and keynote on scoring, predictive analytics, and forms of credit scoring to the CCRC in Beijing China. The event will be held at the Minzu Conference Center in central Beijing, and will be attended by journalists as well as invited experts. The seminar will take place December 14, 2015.

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.