Events | World Privacy Forum

Oct 03 2023

Meeting: UN Statistical Commission

Who: UN Statistical Commission What: Working Group meeting: Data Stewardship, workstream leads meeting. Pam Dixon will participate in this meeting as a workstream lead. When: 5 October 2023 Where: UN Headquarters NYC and virtual

Oct 03 2023

WPF presenting in AI2AS Symposium: How can we protect human rights, including privacy, in an AI-driven world?

Pam Dixon will be making a presentation on how data protection, human rights, established and harmonized global safety standards, and AI governance can be integrated. It is a significant presentation that outlines potential pathways to inclusive and empirically-based governance. Session: How can we protect human rights, including privacy, in an AI-driven world? Sep 14, 2023,

Oct 03 2023

Generative AI and Disinformation: Panel, Geneva Switzerland

Pam Dixon will be moderating a panel on Generative AI and Disinformation for the AI2S2 Symposium at the University of Geneva, 11 September 2023, at 5 PM. Moderator: Pam Dixon World Privacy Forum Speakers: Amir Banifatemi (OECD Policy Observatory) Inma Martinez (GPAI) Sebastian Hallensleben (OECD AI Policy Observatory) Stephanie Ifayemi (Partnership on AI)

Oct 03 2023

WPF presenting to World Bank: ID4D/G2PX Operationalizing trust in Digital Public Infrastructure

Pam Dixon will make a presentation to the World Bank Digital Public Infrastructure Workshop regarding Privacy Enhancing Technologies and how they operate in the DPI and identity context. Dixon will also discuss the role of the broader data governance ecosystem and privacy. Who: World Bank When: 13 September 2023 Where: 1818 H St NW, Washington,

Sep 08 2023

WPF presenting overview of privacy and the emerging US digital ID ecosystem at FED ID

Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting an overview of the US identity ecosystem, and how privacy regulations and standards operate within the evolving landscape, including a discussion of the emerging mobile ID landscape in the US. Dixon will be joining panel participants: Elizabeth Kelly, Special Assistant to the President, National Economic Counsel, Connie LaSalle,

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.