Events | World Privacy Forum

Dec 02 2015

WPF keynote speech in London on Big Data and privacy; scholarly publishers

Pam Dixon will be giving a keynote speech to the annual meeting of the world’s leading scholarly publishers. The meeting will be held in the Russell Congress Center, and is by invitation only. Dixon will be presenting new research on analytics, scoring, big data, and how to protect privacy in a “big data analytics” era.

Nov 30 2015

OECD meeting on Health Data Uses, WPF expert advisor

WPF will be participating as an Expert Advisor to the OECD Health Data Uses working group as it works to make draft recommendations on the topic. The meeting will be held at the OECD headquarters in Paris, France.

Nov 11 2015

Privacy and Access 20/20, Conference of Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, WPF speaking on Big Data

Pam Dixon will be speaking at the The Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia’s conference in Vancouver, Canada on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 3:45 pm. Dixon will be speaking about big data and privacy in a debate format with Deputy Minister of Technology John Jacobson moderating. Dixon’s slide deck for the debate will be made

Nov 04 2015

NCRA Annual Conference, panel discussion, WPF Big Data presentation

Pam Dixon will be speaking at the NCRA annual conference on the topic of Big Data, aggregate credit scoring, and the consumer perspective on big data sources and processes. When: Nov. 4, 2015, morning panel sessions Where: Omni Shoreham Hotel Conference Center, Washington DC For more information: http://www.ncrainc.org/ncra-annual-conference.html

Nov 02 2015

Congressional Testimony, Senate Judiciary, WPF testifying

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will testify before the Senate Judiciary this Tuesday, Nov. 3. The hearing is on data broker security, with Chairman Flake presiding. Hearing details: Data Brokers – Is Consumers’ Information Secure? Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Time: 2:30 pm Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building 226 Presiding: Chairman Flake

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.