20 June 2024 — The World Privacy Forum is very pleased to announce Avni Sinha as a senior research fellow at the World Privacy Forum. She will be conducting research in the areas of data governance and privacy, public interest technology and policy, and AI. Avni comes to WPF from her role working with Dr. Latanya Sweeney at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
The World Privacy Forum is delighted to announce that award-winning technology journalist Kate Kaye will join WPF as its deputy director. As a longstanding technology journalist, Kate has been at the forefront of emerging technology, data privacy, and governance issues. Her reporting exposed the earliest forms of online political microtargeting ...
The World Privacy Forum has been selected as a civil society delegate for the OECD Expert Group that will be revising the Recommendation on Cross-Border Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy. WPF is a delegate on behalf of CSISAC (CSISAC is the formal Civil society stakeholder group at OECD). The original ...
WPF is extremely proud to announce that our founder and Executive Director Pam Dixon has been selected to receive a Pioneer Award from EFF. "I am surprised and pleased in equal measure," said Dixon. "The truth of any award such as this is that I share it with many individuals ...
WPF has been recognized as one of the leading organizations globally influencing privacy, security, inclusion, and fairness in digital identity systems. Goode Intelligence, which produces an annual report on digital identity around the world, has named WPF as a top ten globally influencing organization, as well as ID4Africa, Women in ...
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 ...
A PATIENTS’ GUIDE TO HIPAA: NEW E-BOOK + COMPLETE UPDATE For immediate release 5 March 2019 Oregon : World Privacy Forum’s classic and highly popular health privacy resource for consumers, A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA, has been given a complete end-to-end update and is now also available as an ebook. ...
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon was named as a Top 100 Influencer in Identity by One World Identity. OWI describes the list as including the "Top 100 people to know in 2019: pioneers who are leading the charge to improve identity....
WPF is issuing this statement in response to the New York Times article dated 18 December, 2018 regarding Facebook's data practices. The article provides meaningful new information about the data management and privacy practices of Facebook.
The current debate over federal privacy regulation must be inclusive of secondary and tertiary uses of consumer data. WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon says: "Through our longstanding work regarding data brokers and related harms to consumers, it is abundantly clear that if Congress enacts privacy legislation that fails to effectively regulate data brokers and stop the consumer harms they directly cause, any legislation enacted will be a failure."
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 will be speaking and/or participating in the following events this March. Please join us, or let us know if you will be attending. March 6: Medical ID Theft Update, IPPC U.S. Working Group Executive Director Pam Dixon is presenting a webinar to members of the IPPC US Working Group. ...
Here is a spring 2018 update on a selection of privacy stories WPF has been quoted in over the past few months, many of them quoting our work on privacy. For more articles, see our full World Privacy Forum in the News page. In you missed our recent posts on ...
The World Privacy Forum will be speaking several times during the International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners in Hong Kong; here's the schedule, below; we look forward to meeting or catching up with those of you attending, please come by and say hello. Monday 25 September : European ...
WPF has conducted original research on India's Aadhaar, a national biometric ID system, including field research in India during 2010-2014. WPF has published the original research in a peer-reviewed journal, Nature-Springer, and in Harvard-based Journal of Technology Science. The research found that systemic challenges to data protection and privacy exist in the Aadhaar system, challenges which do have potential remedies. Key lessons can be learned for both the US and the EU as biometric systems grow in popularity.
Our Top Ten Opt Outs is one of our most popular consumer guides. In it, you can see a short list of the most important privacy opt outs available to you today; we've curated the opt-outs and made things simple so you don't have to wander through a list of ...
Pam Dixon will be participating in a special Workshop at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, "Designing our Digital Society." The Workshop is open to the public, and will be held from 4pm-7 pm Tuesday, April 25, 2017. The Workshop will be held at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, ...
WPF's Pam Dixon is speaking as a stakeholder at the G20 Digital Policies for the Future Multi-stakeholder Conference taking place 6 April in Dusseldorf, Germany. The event brings together 300 G20 country stakeholders to discuss aspects of digital transformation. WPF's role will be to discuss encouraging transparency and creating confidence ...
We are honored to be speaking on two panels at this year’s RightsCon, an event that takes place 29-31 March in Brussels, Belgium. Both of our panels will be on the 31 of March. Here is some additional reading and information for each of the panels: Panel 1: Managing Concerns Around Digital Identity, Fri, 9:00-10:15, Innovation, 1st Floor....
The Sackler Forum is jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society January 25, 2017 For Immediate Release WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will present a lecture on privacy, ethics, machine learning, and society at the Sackler Forum Feb. 1 in Washington, DC. The Sackler forum ...
The World Privacy Forum commented in support of a proposed change to the federal rules of practice and procedure. The change would eliminate the requirement to include the last four digits of a litigant’s Social Security Number on Appellate Form 4, which is used by petitioners seeking to proceed in ...
This coming Thursday, WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will give a keynote speech on health privacy and security, "The New Healthcare Fraud Continuum." Based on her latest research in health privacy, this talk will be Dixon's first talk about the new fraud continuum, what it is, how it operates, what ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: San Diego — The World Privacy Forum today published a report finding that the Precision Medicine Initiative has laudable goals, but that many core privacy questions are unaddressed and unanswered. President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is an ambitious program with a goal of gathering the freely volunteered health and biospecimen data of over a million people to facilitate medical research. According to World Privacy Forum’s analysis of the PMI documents and plans, the 1 million planned volunteers may be getting more exposure than they bargained for after they donate their medical records and biospecimens to the volunteer research effort.
The World Privacy Forum has joined the Amazon Smile program. Now, you can select World Privacy Forum as one of the registered 501 c 3 charities you would like your shopping dollars to benefit. There is no cost to you. WPF will receive .5% of the purchase price of eligible ...
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will testify before the Senate Judiciary this Tuesday, Nov. 3. The hearing is on data broker security, with Chairman Flake presiding. Hearing details: Data Brokers – Is Consumers’ Information Secure? Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Time: 2:30 pm ...
