Events | World Privacy Forum

Oct 06 2014

IAPP FTC Practical Privacy Conference, Big Data panel

WPF will be speaking at the FTC’s IAPP Practical Privacy Series on a panel focusing on big data and data brokers. Marc Groman of NAI will be moderating, and Maneesha Mithal, Associate Director, Division of Privacy & Identity Theft, Federal Trade Commission will be a panelist along with WPF executive director Pam Dixon and Robert Belair, Partner,

Oct 03 2014

Universal Periodic Review, Civil Society Consultation, WPF participating in panel

The World Privacy Forum will be speaking about medical and health privacy rights in the Universal Periodic Review for the United States as part of the Civil Society Consultation. The UPR is an important cyclical process run under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council. The last UPR was in 2010. “The Universal Periodic

Sep 02 2014

Forum on Ethical Marketing, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

WPF’s Executive Director will be speaking at a forum on ethical marketing, held at the National Press Club Sept. 25, 2014 from 10 – 5 pm. Participation in the event is by invitation only, however, proceedings from the event will be published. When: Sept. 25, 2014 Where: National Press Club, Washington DC Topic: Data brokers,

Sep 02 2014

IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress, panel, Data Brokers Demystified

WPF will be speaking about data brokers and privacy at the IAPP Privacy Academy in San Jose, California Thursday, Sept. 18. More about the panel: Data Brokers Demystified Thursday, September 18 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. Emilio Cividanes, Partner, Venable LLP Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum Jennifer Glasgow, CIPP/US, Global Privacy and Public Policy Executive,

Sep 02 2014

FTC Big Data Workshop, “Big Data: A tool for inclusion or exclusion?”

WPF’s executive director will be speaking on panel #2 at the Federal Trade Commission’s important public workshop entitled “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?” in Washington on September 15, 2014. The panel, What’s on the Horizon with Big Data? will explore potential uses of big data as well as the potential benefits and harms for

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.