Events | World Privacy Forum

Oct 18 2019

WPF panelist, Center for Global Development

Pam Dixon is speaking on a panel at the Center for Global Development, Data Governance & Economic Development. The event will be held at 12pm October 16 at the Center’s conference facilities in Washington DC. Center for Global Development 2055 L Street NW Washington, DC For more information, please visit cgdev.org

Sep 20 2019

WPF participating in Oregon AG Privacy Task Force

The Oregon Attorney General has convened a privacy task force with a Central Table of ten members to discuss privacy issues in the state of Oregon. WPF has been selected as a member of the Central Table, and will provide privacy expertise to the group. The first meeting of the Oregon AG privacy task force

Sep 12 2019

WPF analysis of privacy and biometrics in the US: Presentation

Pam Dixon, ED of the World Privacy Forum, will present a detailed analysis of privacy and biometrics in the US. The talk will outline key biometric misunderstandings, key risks, priorities for solutions, and key solutions that already exist. WPF has done extensive work in biometrics, including original research on the Aadhaar biometric ID in India

Sep 05 2019

Portland City Forum on Surveillance Technologies; WPF invited participant

WPF will be participating in the Surveillance Technologies Community Forum coordinated by the City of Portland’s Smart City PDX and the Office of Equity and Human Rights. The City of Portland’s Smart City PDX program and the Office of Equity and Human Rights are convening the invitation-only community forum on Surveillance and Facial Recognition Technologies in

Aug 06 2019

WPF Keynote, Modern Privacy and Governance

Keynote, Modern Privacy and Governance, Radar First Portland, OR Pam Dixon presented a keynote speech on modern privacy and governance to the RadarFirst users meeting. This speech outlined WPF’s work on Voluntary Consensus Standards and data governance as well as identity ecosystems, health data, data brokers, and AI/Machine Learning. August 6, 2019, by invitation only

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.
National IDs Around the World — Interactive map

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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.