Events | World Privacy Forum

Sep 20 2022

OECD Network of Experts on AI

WPF will be attending the OECD Network of Experts on AI Expert Group on tools and accountability for AI. The meeting is an ongoing working group meeting as part of the AIGO Working Party at OECD. When: 12 July 2022 Paris and Virtual

Sep 20 2022

Privacy Course; History of privacy thought, privacy by design; CMU

WPF’s Executive Director is teaching a summer privacy course at Carnegie Mellon University, co-taught with Aleecia McDonald (CMU professor) and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, (Professor of Law at iHub & iCIS Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands ). The course will begin with Dixon’s segment on privacy thought, history, legislation, and

Sep 20 2022

ID4Africa, Workshops Livecast

WPF participated in the ID4Africa 2022 Livecast EP32 event and gave an intervention and commentary on WPF’s participation in Workshop 2 on Identities and Borders, originally held in Marrakesh, Morocco. See the live cast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ivaCWKMWs (WPF Intervention begins at 2:44 )

Sep 20 2022

Attorney General’s Privacy Task Force

WPF will be meeting as a member of the Oregon AG’s Privacy Task Force 21 June, 2022. The meeting will be held virtually, and is by invitation only.

Sep 20 2022

ID4Africa Annual General Meeting; WPF participating in Working Group

ID4Africa is holding its annual general meeting 15-16 June, 2022 in Marrakesh, Morocco. WPF will be attending the conference, and will be a participant in the AGM Workshop 1, on the topic of Identity Management for Frictionless Borders. For more information: https://id4africaevents.com/2022

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.