Events | World Privacy Forum

May 30 2017

World Bank Identity Management Meeting

WPF will participate in the World Bank ID Management and Legal Policy meeting May 19, 2017. The event will include discussion of the ID4Development Identity Principles, as well as other biometric and identity guidelines and developments. The meeting will be held at the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Mar 26 2017

WPF presenting at G20 Digital Policies for the Future Multistakeholder Conference

WPF’s Pam Dixon has been invited by the German government to speak at the G20 Digital Policies for the Future Multi-stakeholder Conference taking place 6 April in Dusseldorf, Germany. The event brings together 300 stakeholders to discuss aspects of digital transformation. WPF’s role will be to discuss encouraging transparency and creating confidence in the digital world

Mar 26 2017

WPF presenting at RightsCon on digital identity, biometrics, and policy

This year’s RightsCon will take place 29-31 March in Brussels, Belgium. WPF will be speaking twice at this year’s RightsCon; both panels will be on the 31 of March. All panels will be held at the Crowne Plaza Brussels Le Palace. Panel 1: Managing Concerns Around Digital Identity, Fri, 9:00-10:15, Innovation, 1st Floor Panel 2: Digital Rights Under Trump:

Mar 26 2017

WPF in conversation with the World Bank at the Biometrics Institute US Member Meeting

Pam Dixon will be joining David Satola, World Bank in a one-on-one conversation about digital and biometric identity principles, including the new World Bank principles. The conversation will cover identity policy, privacy, and case studies. The event will be hosted by the Biometrics Institute at its US Conference, March 28. The event will be held in

Mar 25 2017

Symposium on Predictive Analytics

WPF’s Pam Dixon is a presenter at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Symposium on Predictive Analytics March 24. WPF’s role in the event is to discuss consumer scoring and The Scoring of America report, and discussion of Dixon’s recent research in AI and policy. The panel WPF is joining is focused on different sectoral aspects

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.