Events | World Privacy Forum

Apr 13 2015

Collection Scoring, Privacy, and Impacts on Low and Middle Income Consumers: WPF speech

Pam Dixon will be delivering a special one-hour talk about collection scores, privacy, and collection scoring’s impact on low and middle income consumers at the Credit and Collections conference, a major industry conference in this subject area. This talk with be an expansion of the Scoring of America report, and will include new research in

Mar 27 2015

Data, Lending and Civil Rights, Georgetown University Law Center, WPF speaking

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be discussing her research on big data, the financial sector, and civil rights at Georgetown University Law Center April 8, 2015. The event is open to the public. Event information: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 Georgetown University Law Center Gewirz Hall 120 F Street NW (12th Floor) Washington, DC 1:00

Mar 02 2015

National Association of Attorneys General, WPF presentation on big data and privacy

WPF Executive Director will be speaking at the National Association of Attorneys General Southern Regional meeting, hosted by Southern Region Chair Alabama Attorney General Strange on March 12-13, 2015. Dixon will be a speaker on the panel, “Big Data and Privacy: Striking a Balance.” The NAAG Southern Region Meeting will focus on The Surge in Data Breaches:

Mar 02 2015

National Network to End Domestic Violence, WPF “Skilled in Health Privacy” Presentation

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting back-to-back workshops for the National Network to End Domestic Violence on how those working with this vulnerable population group can be skillful in handling and navigating health privacy issues. The conference will be in New Orleans, and is part of the NNEDV SafetyNet Project. More on this

Feb 03 2015

National Privacy Research Strategy, WPF participant

WPF is participating in the National Privacy Research Strategy workshop, which will be held in Washington DC this February. This workshop is part of a broader effort from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Last October, OSTP asked federal agencies to prepare a draft National Privacy Research Strategy, with the objective to

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.