Events | World Privacy Forum

May 28 2015

Privacy Law Scholars Conference, WPF commenter

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be participating in the annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), held this year in Berkeley, California. Dixon is honored to be the commenter on a paper being workshopped during the conference. PLSC is co-hosted by Berkeley Law and GWU Law. The PLSC brings together privacy law scholars, privacy scholars

Apr 22 2015

Navigating the New World: The Most Important Things About Privacy to Know Right Now, Fiesole Conference, Berlin Germany, WPF speech

Pam Dixon will be giving a speech at the Fiesole Conference in Berlin, Germany on the topic of Navigating The New World: The Most Important Things About Privacy to Know Right Now. The Fiesole Conference is invitation only, and will be held from May 6-8, 2015. Details: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) Conference Centre, Einstein Room, 5th

Apr 22 2015

Big Data and Fairness Structures, European Data Protection Days (Euroforum), Berlin Germany, WPF panelist

The World Privacy Forum will be a panelist May 5 at the European Data Protection Days (Euroforum) in Berlin, Germany. Pam Dixon will be on a distinguished panel speaking about Big Data, privacy, and fairness structures for big data use and analysis. FTC Commissioner Julie Brill will be delivering a keynote at the event, which will

Apr 22 2015

National Ass’n of Healthcare Journalists – Medical ID theft issues and risks, WPF panelist

Executive Director Pam Dixon will be speaking as a panelist at the National Association of Healthcare Journalists Health Journalism conference on Friday, April 24 about medical fraud, medical identity theft, privacy issues, and risks from health data breaches. The conference will be held in San Jose, California. Details: When: Friday, April 24, 10:40 am. Where:

Apr 13 2015

Southwestern Law School – The Evolution of the Privacy & Security Landscape throughout the World: WPF panelist

WPF’s Executive Director Pam Dixon will be speaking about the global privacy landscape on a panel at the Southwestern Law School’s Privacy Conference. Dixon will be focusing on privacy in Asia, trends in the EU, and big data policies globally. What: Panel on global privacy, Southwestern Law School Privacy Conference When: April 17, 2015, 2:30-4:00

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.