October 2013 : Pam Dixon is speaking at Biometrics 2013 in London with Dr. Joseph Atick and Dr. Emilio Mordini, Director, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy. The topic is Privacy at the Cross Road: A Debate on Frameworks. As biometrics become part of our daily lives, the issue ...
London, UK
01/17/2013 NTIA Mobile privacy Mobile app privacy discussions continue WPF participated in the January 17th meeting of the NTIA Multistakeholder Process. The jointly crafted code WPF, ACLU, Mobile App Alliance, and Consumer Action created was again discussed and edited. A growing consensus is moving toward the joint code. The next ...
Retail privacy | Executive director Pam Dixon will be on Wisconsin NPR at 6 am Central Tuesday, July 30 to discuss the privacy issues consumers face with the growing sophistication of consumer retail tracking technology in stores. "Most people do not realize that as they shop, retailers are increasingly using a variety of tracking techniques ranging from digital signage with cameras to technology that tracks the movement of their mobile phones over time," said Pam Dixon. "In our research, we have found some very large stores using these technologies, but it is rare for a store to provide notification to consumers, and rarer still to let consumers opt out -- or better yet, opt in to this technology."
Wisconsin
CFP self-regulation panel -- At this year's Computers' Freedom, and Privacy conference , Pam Dixon will be on a panel discussing the NAI self-regulation and comparing the now NAI to the NAI of 2007, when WPF published a strong report discussing the profound issues with the NAI at that time. ...
Washington, D.C.
Do Not Track History -- In the fall of 2007, WPF executive director Pam Dixon convened a meeting of civil liberty, consumer, and privacy groups to discuss and develop an idea she had of "Do Not Track." This became the Do Not Track proposal, which has now morphed into something ...
National Press Club in Washington D.C
Medical ID Theft -- Pam Dixon was a guest on Gerri Willis' show (Fox Business News) today to discuss medical ID theft and what consumers can do to protect themselves from it. View the clip online .
Gerri Willis' show (Fox Business News)
ID Ecosystem -- WPF Senior Projects Manager Marianne Fitzpatrick will be participating at the ID Ecosystem's Plenary meeting this week. Of top concern at the plenary will be a new ID theft use case that requires substantive discussion regarding privacy checks and balances. For more information, see NSTIC's page on ...
Senior Identity Theft - FTC -- WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be speaking at the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday on the issue of Senior ID theft, and specifically, about medical forms of the crime. Dixon, who wrote the first report on medical ID theft and coined the term for ...
Federal Trade Commission
WPF on privacy and consumer trust -- Pam Dixon is speaking on a panel on privacy and trust at Marketing Science Institute in Boston. The panel, led by John Deighton of the Harvard Business School, includes experts from EPIC, the DAA, and CBS.
Boston, Mass.
Visiting Scholar: Privacy in a Modern Era -- Pam Dixon is a visiting scholar at Portland's PNCA. She is scheduled to speak with students in a round of interdisciplinary classes, and she will also be giving a public keynote at 7 pm in Swigert Commons. Her public lecture is on ...
Portland, Oregon
Senior ID Theft and Privacy -- Pam Dixon speaks to Los Angeles County social workers and financial abuse support teams today to share WPF's wealth of information about medical identity theft and how this crime impacts seniors. The talk is titled Senior ID Theft - Issues, Causes, and Cures. WISE ...
Los Angeles, California
Privacy in India and Developing Economies -- World Privacy Forum Executive Director Pam Dixon will present WPF's research and India privacy videos at the FTC - IAPP Global Privacy Conference workshop Wednesday, March 7. The session, Global Perspectives on Consumer Privacy, is the first session of its kind at IAPP ...
Washington DC
ID Ecosystem -- WPF is participating in the ID Ecosystem meetings as a consumer privacy representative. Senior Projects Manager Marianne Fitzpatrick is taking the lead on this project, and is working on general privacy and financial privacy areas. The next meeting of the ID Ecosystem is Tuesday March 5. The ...
Online privacy -- Pam Dixon will participate in the IAB's formal privacy policy debate as a privacy and consumer representative on Tuesday, Feb. 26. This marks the first time the IAB annual leadership summit has hosted a formal policy debate. The debate will be moderated by Katy Kay of Advertising ...
Phoenix, Arizona
Reputation and privacy -- Pam Dixon spoke at the Southwestern Law School Privacy Conference on the topic of reputational privacy Friday the 22nd along with Neville Johnson and Paul Tweed. Dixon highlighted three key consumer situations WPF assisted with recently, discussing the employment challenges consumers faced when harmful material was ...
Arizona School of Law -- Pam Dixon participated as a discussant and contributor to the Arizona School of Law's private workshop on the topic of the future of privacy. Key areas of discussion included the European Union's Right to be Forgotten proposal, consent and health privacy, and Do Not Track.
Phoenix, AZ
Webinar -- This Thursday, Pam Dixon will be presenting the consumer privacy perspective for a DMA Webinar on data innovation. While marketers are interested in innovating to use consumer data, consumers have real privacy concerns that need to be addressed. Dixon will present some of the key implications. More information ...
Pam Dixon to Speak at Churchill Club -- WPF's Pam Dixon will speak on privacy gaps at Silicon Valley's Churchill Club Wednesday, January 23 in San Francisco. The panel is part of International Privacy Day activities and will be moderated by Chris Kelley, Former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook. More ...
San Francisco, Ca.
Facial recognition -- Pam Dixon spoke at a CES panel on privacy issues in facial recognition technologies as part of the Leaders in Technology program at CES. The panel was moderated by Tony Romm of Politico and included FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen and Harley Geiger, legislative counsel for Representative Zoe ...
Las Vegas, NV
Facial recognition -- Pam Dixon spoke at a CES panel on privacy issues in facial recognition technologies as part of the Leaders in Technology program at CES. The panel was moderated by Tony Romm of Politico and included FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen and Harley Geiger, legislative counsel for Representative Zoe ...
Las Vegas, NV.
Mysore, India
