Facial recognition — Pam Dixon of WPF testified at the FTC’s Facial Recognition workshop, speaking on a panel about the policy implications of facial recognition technology. The World Privacy Forum’s report on Digital Signage was mentioned several times at the hearing, as were the collaborative consumer protection principles the WPF led.
Pam Dixon maintained a long-standing weekly tech segment on ClearChannel for many years. (Monterey Bay, Salinas, Santa Cruz). Many of the discussions revolved around privacy. If you would like links, headlines, and information related to the weekly broadcasts, check or follow Pam Dixon’s Facebook page, where updates are posted.
Online privacy — Executive director Pam Dixon will be speaking about online privacy and consumers at the Digiday Data Management Summit on Monday, July 18.
Data brokers — WPF will be speaking at the CFP conference on two panels. On June 15, Pam Dixon will participate in a plenary session on data brokers. On June 16, Dixon will moderate a health care privacy panel. This panel will focus on electronic health care in the state of California and the current privacy issues in electronic health exchange.
California health privacy — The World Privacy Forum, as co-chair of the California Privacy and Security Advisory Board, was pleased to vote on an opt-in privacy standard for Californians in the June CalPSAB board meeting. The standard will be part of a set of guidelines the state of California uses in its development of electronic health care records. This set of guidelines was the culmination of two years of policy work with the CalPSAB board.