Events | World Privacy Forum

Oct 01 2015

FTC Lead Generation Workshop, WPF presenting

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting at the FTC’s Lead Generation Workshop Friday, October 30. Event description from the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a workshop on October 30, 2015 to explore online lead generation in various industries including lending and education. The workshop will bring together a variety of stakeholders,

Sep 18 2015

37th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference

WPF will be attending the 37th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference in Amsterdam Oct. 27-29, 2015. This conference is the assembly of all accredited data protection and privacy commissioners from around the world. More than one hundred authorities from 63 countries and 1 international organisation (the European Union) have been accredited as members, and

Sep 18 2015

Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference, Amsterdam, WPF commenter

Pam Dixon will be leading a paper workshop at the Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference in Amsterdam October 26, 2015. The paper being workshopped is by Bilyana Petkova, Domesticating the “Foreign” in Making Transatlantic Data Privacy Law. The workshop is during Session 3, at 13:50-15:00. Where: De Bazel Café & Conference Center Vijzelstraat 32 1017 HL Amsterdam The Netherlands Schedule

Sep 14 2015

Biometric Institute panel discussion on facial recognition and other biometrics

Pam Dixon, Executive Director of the World Privacy Forum, will be participating in a panel discussion at the Biometric Institute member’s meeting on Sept. 15, 2015. The panel discussion will be held at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC, and will include speakers from Google, Facebook, ACLU, NIST, Morpho, and others. Dr. Joseph Atick will

Jul 27 2015

Workshop, National Network to End Domestic Violence, WPF presenting

Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting a two hour technology and privacy training at the Tech Summit for the National Network to End Domestic Violence. The training will cover the key aspects of social media, financial privacy, health privacy, and school privacy. A WPF e-book will be available to attendees. When: The Tech Summit

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.