Opening of 2025 ID4Africa, Addis Ababa Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - World Privacy Forum is pleased to announce that it is chairing a full day privacy workshop at ID4Africa's 2025 AGM. The extended workshop is in two parts, and is focused on hearing the voices of African data protection authorities ...
Inside Chile’s Department of Social Security Superintendence — the country’s social security and medical insurance agency — medical claims processors hold the livelihoods and future health of thousands of people in their hands. They are responsible for deciding whether or not the government should pay wages when workers are on ...
There’s no shortage of principles and policies for governing AI from governments and NGOs around the world. But how do they put those principles and policies into practice? It’s that practical side of AI governance that has been a key focus of our work at World Privacy Forum for more ...
WPF provided comments to the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy regarding its priorities for the U.S. AI Action Plan. WPF's comments focused on 4 key points, including the importance of supporting the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium, and support for building a verifiable, repeatable evaluative environment for testing and measuring AI governance tools so as to foster trustworthy AI systems and ecosystems, inclusive of privacy.
The World Privacy Forum is pleased to announce the agenda and speakers for a half-day tutorial on 28 February, 2025 for the international IEEE Computer Vision Conference , to be held this year in Tucson, Arizona. This tutorial presents advanced privacy research and analysis in the intersection of Computer Vision ...
WPF has responded to the UN's call for recommendations regarding how it should implement two of its major projects relating to the Global Digital Compact; that is, its pending Global Dialogue on the Governance of AI, and its Scientific Panel on AI. WPF responded with detailed suggestions , and urged ...
WPF deputy director Kate Kaye will facilitate a roundtable discussion among academic scholars, industry representatives and others addressing concerns and considerations related to synthetic content and use of synthetic content governance tools. Kate will help guide the discussion during the Organizational Applications for Identifying and Tagging Synthetic Content roundtable. In ...
Emotion recognition is baked into all sorts of software and systems many of us use or experience every day, from video call systems measuring the “mood” at a work meeting, to systems used to gauge distraction at school, or impairment or anger of drivers inside their cars. Despite its increasing ...
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be giving a rare, live one hour Q and A session with the Washington Office of Privacy and Data Protection (OPDP) , which was created by the state legislature in 2016. This will take place in celebration of International Privacy Week, 30 January 2025. ...
WPF submitted comments regarding how commercially available information (CAI) — also known as data broker data — will be handled by U.S. Executive Agencies. The Request for Information from OMB was an important opportunity to comment on a topic that has only rarely been opened for public comment. OMB Request ...
In this episode of World Privacy Forum’s Privacy on the Ground, Māori language expert and educator Te Mihinga Komene shares positive and problematic experiences working with tech companies to help build and correct Māori language translation and learning systems. Komene also discusses extractive data collection practices in AI, and why ...
The World Privacy Forum has filed comments to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget in response to its Request for Feedback on Draft Guidance: Broadening Public Participation and Community Engagement with the Federal Government. WPF made three specific suggestions to OMB regarding how Privacy Act notices might be managed in a way that facilitates better feedback from those interested specifically in Privacy Act of 1974 notices, which have meaningful bearing on matters relating to data governance, privacy, and data protection.
The first Digital Trust Convention was held in Paris at OECD Headquarters on 15 November, 2024. This event addressed the problems of how to establish trust in people and information in digital spaces, including the challenges created by synthetic content generated or impacted by AI. WPF co-sponsored the event, and Executive Director Pam Dixon was in Paris to participate in person. Her remarks focused on: solutions must do no harm, cautions around inappropriate uses of digital ID, and respect for socio-technical contexts.
WPF Deputy Director Kate Kaye will present her ongoing research regarding AI Governance in Los Angeles on November 12, 2024 in a keynote talk “Deep fakes, AI, and the Era of Content Authenticity” at the CIMM West event in Los Angeles, a gathering of around 200 media and advertising industry ...
The minute decisions, measurements and methods embedded inside the tools used to govern AI systems directly affect whether policy implementations actually align with policy goals. The government of Chile’s experience using its AI bidding template, and questions inside the agency regarding how to weigh traditional tech procurement criteria such as vendor cost along with newer responsible AI criteria like discriminatory impacts, give a glimpse of the AI governance challenges happening on the ground today. The tensions the Chilean government is dealing with may be a sign of what other organizations around the world could encounter as they put their own responsible AI policies into practice and navigate the policy implications of AI-facilitated decision making.
There are often disconnects between data protection policy and actual practice on the ground, especially when policy established on a regional or international level is intended to meet the needs of local communities. Eric Hardy is no stranger to this reality. In his role at the Labriola National American Indian ...
Turning what Alex Soto refers to as sometimes “lofty, grand” theoretical Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles and protocols into practice can be mundane, even tedious. It could require combing through hundreds of years-worth of paper documents, photos, oral histories of sensitive cultural knowledge in various formats, and other materials. It requires ...
A roster of events, speeches, and courses that World Privacy Forum is engaging in.
Video and blog post by WPF Founder and Executive Director Pam Dixon commemorating International ID Day 2024, discussing the importance of ensuring legal identity for all people, and the equal importance of ensuring that identity systems and ecosystems Do no Harm and are built so they cannot do harm now, nor in the future.
It is my great pleasure to introduce our new podcast, Privacy on the Ground. This podcast is about all of the things World Privacy Forum has been researching, writing about and working on for more than 20 years, but in a format for today’s audiences. Our groundbreaking work on data governance, data protection, privacy, and complex technologies and ecosystems is often concentrated in dense reports that can take years to research and produce. Our podcasts enable us to bring the compelling people, stories, places, news, and ideas we find in the course of our work to the public faster and in an episodic format that allows us to highlight the richness and depth of the people, stories, trends, and ideas you won’t find anywhere else.
Our first series of WPF’s Privacy on the Ground podcast illuminates an important-yet-underexplored body of scholarly work and practice with profound implications for privacy: Indigenous Data Sovereignty. The Indigenous leaders spotlighted in these talks illuminate what Indigenous data protection really means at the ground level, and why it matters in relation to privacy. With host Kate Kaye.
WPF’s “AI Governance on the Ground Series” highlights and expands on topics and issues from WPF’s Risky Analysis report and its survey of AI tools. In this first publication of the series, we highlight how Canadian government agencies are implementing AI governance and algorithmic transparency mechanisms across various agencies, including its employment and transportation agencies, its Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, among others. The agencies have evaluated the automated systems they use according to the country’s Algorithmic Impact Assessment process, or AIA, and the assessment results are public. Designers of this assessment framework — required since the country’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making went into effect in April 2019 – have now re-evaluated the AIA, updating its criteria, requirements, and risk-level scoring algorithm along the way. WPF interviewed government officials as well as key Canadian end-users of the assessments to capture the full spectrum of how the AIA is working at the ground level.
Amy Juan sometimes tells a story about a little bean that grows on the Tohono O’odham Nation’s San Xavier Co-op Farm called the Tepary bean. Juan is the admin manager of that farm, which is close to Tucson, Arizona. And, through her work with the International Indian Treaty Council, an ...
Dr Krystal Tsosie made what she calls a “hail mary” pass when she and colleagues pushed the genomic science research community to recognize that collection of genomic information from Indigenous peoples may not have offered much benefit to the Indigenous groups who contributed DNA -- and instead perpetuated stereotypes and ...
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
