WPF’s Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting at an upcoming OECD Workshop on the topic of data stewardship, access, sharing, and control in regards to national data strategies. WPF will be speaking as a organizational member of the formal civil society stakeholder group at OECD (CSISAC). https://www.oecd.org/digital/going-digital-project/ ). This ...
WPF is pleased to announce the publication of new work by our Executive Director, Pam Dixon, in the March 2022 Turkish Policy Quarterly. " This journal article is an outgrowth of long work looking at what could help in the biometric ecosystem to address and mitigate the consequential risks of ...
Join the World Privacy Forum and others at a High-level session on the Future of AI, Thursday 24 February 2022 at the OCED International Conference on AI in Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills. Details: 24 February 2022 13:45 - 14:45 CET , 7:45 am Eastern, 4:45 am Pacific. Registration is ...
WPF commends the publication of the Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values Index by the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP). The Index, which was published 21 February 2022, contains an overview of AI implementation in the country-level context, covering 50 countries, and focusing on how implementations are progressing. WPF’s ...
After many years of participating as a civil society delegate at OECD, WPF's executive director Pam Dixon has been voted onto the steering committee for OECD's civil society arm, CSISAC. "It is an honor to be voted in by my fellow members of civil society to the CSISAC steering committee, ...
WPF launched a mini-documentary about problems in identity systems on 17 November, 2021 in collaboration with ID4Africa. Digital identity systems are generally accepted as positive tools for social good. Nevertheless, they can pose several dangers and cause significant concerns. This mini-documentary takes viewers on a tour around the world to ...
In comments filed with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, WPF supported proposed language for Comment 235.7 (A)-1, Scope of Restriction , with the understanding that more needs to be done to determine and set quality assurance measures for debit card payment system authentication methods in general, and for biometric ...
During the pandemic, health ecosystems have changed dramatically. WPF has been engrossed in researching these changes, and is participating in multiple stakeholder groups assessing the impact of the pandemic on privacy interests. One of our activities is in the OECD AI Observatory, where we are a delegate in the ONE ...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has withdrawn a proposed rulemaking related to biometric collection, USCIS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0007. Last year, WPF urged DHS to withdraw this biometric rulemaking because the rulemaking lacked scientific facts and basis. WPF also found that the DHS biometric proposal avoided discussion of the ...
We are extremely pleased and heartened that after years of requesting that the FTC make compliance reports public, that the Commission has agreed to do so with the Everalbum settlement. WPF submitted comments regarding the Everalbum proposed settlement to the US Federal Trade Commission on February 23, 2021. Today, the ...
The World Privacy Forum submitted comments to the US Federal Trade Commission regarding its proposed consent order regarding In the Matter of Everalbum, Inc . The FTC alleges that Everalbum misrepresented to its users the circumstances in which the company would utilize face recognition on its users’ photos. The Commission’s ...
The FTC has proposed a crucially important settlement with a photo app developer, Everalbum Inc., which the FTC says “deceived consumers about its use of facial recognition technology and its retention of the photos and videos of users who deactivated their accounts.” The proposed FTC settlement will require the company ...
Executive Director Pam Dixon to present a featured lecture at National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine at its Colloquium: The Future of Data Science Pam Dixon’s lecture will be Wednesday October 28 from 12:00-12:45 am Eastern. Looking Ten Years Ahead: Key Converging Technologies in Computing, Data, and Analysis and ...
The World Privacy Forum filed comments with DHS regarding its proposed new rules regarding biometric collection, and asked DHS to reconsider the rule and to apply the science, ethics, and international conventions regarding the protection of victims of human trafficking to the rule prior to moving forward. WPF found that ...
In a new National Academies of Science report on the emerging bioeconomy , Safeguarding the Bioeconomy , the authors did something a bit unexpected: they called out cybersecurity and sensitive data protections and practices as significant co-factors for economic success.In the past, these same data security and privacy factors may ...
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will testify before the full committee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) regarding emerging privacy concerns in the healthcare environment, including the role of artificial intelligence, patient authorizations, and automated access to patient health information. The NCVHS is the statutory [42 ...
This coming Friday, the government of India is planning to announce the winner of a Request For Proposals to create a large, national, centralized facial recognition system for law enforcement purposes. The tender for the project outlines an ambitious program of facial surveillance in India utilizing image databases that law ...
For several years now, groups of stakeholders large and small and points in between have been working on ethical AI, rules for AI, privacy and explainability in AI, and more. WPF actively participated as a delegate in one of the largest international efforts, that of the OECD to write the ...
Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, is testifying before the US Senate Banking Committee today on the topic of privacy, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, data brokers, and predictive analytics. “I am pleased to have the opportunity to discuss our research and what we have documented about the privacy of Americans ...
AI will alter the world of work, both in workplaces and in workplace information ecosystems. Labor experts have a term for negotiating the near and long-term effects of AI: “A fair and just transition.” These and other experts have already begun documenting the emerging changes in the workplace resulting from AI deployments. Some consequences are positive, some are deleterious. No one has a crystal ball with a perfect view of what the future may hold. That's why a key focus now for those interested in AI and the world of work is to research and benchmark what is happening.
WPF is pleased to announce that after more than two years of work, the OECD draft Council Recommendation on Artificial intelligence is now final. The draft now becomes the OECD Guidelines on AI. The final meeting took place in Paris, Friday 15 March at OECD headquarters, where the CDEP Committee ...
WPF will be speaking and/or participating in the following events this summer and fall. Please join us, or let us know if you will be attending. Global Forum on Artificial Intelligence , Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue, 9-10 July 2018 . Zurich, Switzerland. Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, delegate. ...
WPF's Pam Dixon will be speaking about AI and governance at the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Annual Multi-stakeholder Forum June 19 in Brussels, Belgium. The panel discussion on AI will include FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra, as well as Achim Klabunde from the European Data Protection Supervisor's Office. WPF is ...
