Events | World Privacy Forum

May 27 2014

National Network to End Domestic Violence Safety Net Summit; WPF training

WPF will be leading two training sessions at NNEDV’s Safety Net Summit, which provides hands-on training for professionals working with victims of domestic violence, stalking, and trafficking. The Summit will be held July 29-31 at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, California. Registration: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014TechSummit More information: http://techsafety.org/technology-summit/

May 27 2014

Privacy Law Scholars Conference, WPF moderating session

WPF is honored to be moderating a paper on predictive analytics by Frank Pasquale and Danielle Citron at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference at George Washington School of Law. The session will be Friday, June 6. For more information about PLSC, see the conference page.

Apr 18 2014

WPF Speaking at National Law University, New Delhi, India

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be on the campus of the National Law University in New Delhi, India on April 24 to speak with students and professors about global privacy issues and trends, as well as hear the latest scholarly privacy research from India and discuss the forthcoming privacy legislation in India.

Apr 09 2014

Brookings Institute Privacy Discussion

WPF will be participating in a Brookings Institute event April 9, as an invited discussant of Brookings Senior Fellow Benjamin Wittes and Wells Bennett’s work on the tension between privacy and data-driven innovation, and new paradigms of privacy. Leading policy makers, business officials, and thought leaders will be participating. April 9, 2014, 6 p.m. Brookings

Mar 13 2014

WPF to Guest Lecture, Georgetown University

Pam Dixon will be a guest lecturer for Dr. Mark MacCarthy’s Information Privacy & Security course at Georgetown University on March 19, 2014. The topic will be modern privacy and data flows. For more information about this course, see: http://courses.georgetown.edu/index.cfm?Action=View&CourseID=CCTP-708

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.