Events | World Privacy Forum

Oct 26 2016

WPF keynotes at Biometrics 2016

The World Privacy Forum’s Pam Dixon delivered a keynote talk on privacy and biometrics at the yearly Biometrics Institute gathering in London, which was held this year Oct. 18-20. She also gave a privacy briefing for Biometrics Institute members prior to the conference, and participated in a NIST workshop on recent developments in biometrics. The keynote

Sep 21 2016

WPF participating in NYU’s KAVLI ethics workgroup, co-moderating

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be co-moderating a portion of New York University’s KAVLI Human project ethics working group meeting to discuss research guidelines for the project. KAVLI is a wide-ranging, significant longitudinal human subjects research study that also crosses into new areas of big data research. WPF is pleased to be able to participate meaningfully

Jun 13 2016

Bioethics and Privacy Presentation

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting a keynote to the Sharp Healthcare Bioethics Committee July 7, 2016 in San Diego, California. “I am pleased to have the opportunity to share my privacy expertise with this important committee, and to learn from them,” said Pam Dixon. “Hospital bioethics committees play a crucial role in advancing

May 17 2016

Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference, WPF Commenter

WPF’s Pam Dixon will present comments for a scholarly paper workshop at this year’s Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference. The paper will be by Masooda Bashir, UIUC and Hsiao-Ying Huang, UIUC. The annual conference will be held this year June 2-3 at the George Washington School of Law. The full PLSC schedule is here. More about PLSC: Dates:

Apr 06 2016

WPF presenting keynote speech to leading academic publishers on privacy

Pam Dixon will be giving a keynote speech to the annual meeting of the leading US academic and scholarly publishers, the International Association of STM Publishers. This is a follow-up to her keynote in London last fall on big data, privacy, and publishing. Where: National Press Club When: April 28, 11:15 am What: Keynote followed by

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.