World Privacy Forum

WPF’s deputy director Kate Kaye will be speaking about AI, data governance, and privacy in NYC at the CX Circle event… more details in our event post— https://lnkd.in/ggbGH-Va

We are delighted to bring you the first publication in our new series, AI Governance on the Ground, which highlights and expands on topics and issues from our Risky Analysis report and its survey of AI governance tools. This series is all about seeing how governments are going about the business of implementing the AI governance tools in real life. To research these mini-use cases, we are interviewing stakeholders across the spectrum, including government officials as well as end-users who are impacted by or who need to use the tools. We also look at how the tools are being used on the ground in actual use cases. The first publication focuses on 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. Read the new series starter here: https://lnkd.in/gKdTYBiW

Gear up for ID Day 2024! ID Day 2024 is only 2 months away and it’s now time to gear up for impact. By popular demand, we are adopting a theme to serve as a framework for guiding and harmonizing the global commemorations this year. That theme is ‘Celebrating the Right to be Visible’.   *Consult the ID Day guide to help organise your commemoration activities: https://lnkd.in/ea7HHWhA *Visit the ID Day website for practical information and resources: https://www.id-day.org/ Bookmark this page as we’ll continue to update with additional resources.   We invite our ID Day Coalition Partners to ensure that your campaign liaison details are up to date. Contact us if there have been changes: [email protected].   Not yet a Partner? Join the 250 organizations that support the call for ID Day recognition. Sign up today: https://lnkd.in/gd6qQEZV

Today executive director Pam Dixon will be attending the UNESCO AI Governance Policy Dialogue on behalf of WPF at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The event includes member states and key stakeholders. Trustworthy AI and its relationship to privacy, data governance, and knowledge governance is a core area of our work at WPF as our talented team utilizes our decades of classical privacy knowledge, our research in machine learning and AI governance tools, and finds the ways privacy is changing in an advanced AI era. You can see our discussion of these ideas in our Risky Analysis report from December 2023. Risky Analysis: Assessing and Improving AI Governance Tools An international review of AI Governance Tools and suggestions for pathways forward World Privacy Forum, December 2023 https://lnkd.in/gXgb2fVP

20 June 2024 The World Privacy Forum is 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, where she conducted critical research under Latanya Sweeney regarding health privacy and health ecosystems, among other issues. “This is an important and transitional time in data governance and privacy,” said WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon. “We are so pleased to have Avni working with us; she is contributing to several key projects and it is already quite obvious how extraordinary her work is.“ For Avni’s bio and more information, see: https://lnkd.in/gYTC8gC7

I’m very proud to head the new EU AI Office as of today. Many thanks to Roberto for his presence at the launch. The AI Office is our unwavering commitment to a future where AI is a force for good.

A report by the World Privacy Forum investigates #AI #governance tools, aiming to build a more reliable framework for evaluating and mitigating risks associated with AI systems. It emphasizes the necessity of comprehensive evaluation to prevent the unintended consequences of AI deployment. Key Findings: AI Governance Tools: The report highlights various tools designed to measure AI inclusiveness, fairness, explainability, privacy, and safety. However, it notes that many of these tools lack sufficient oversight and quality assessments. Risk of False Confidence: Ineffective governance tools can create a false sense of security, potentially leading to unintended problems. Need for Evidentiary Foundations: There is a critical need for an evaluative environment where AI governance tools can be tested, matured, and validated. Multistakeholder Cooperation: Building a trustworthy AI governance ecosystem requires cooperation from multiple stakeholders. Framework Adaptation: The report suggests adapting the OECD’s early AI governance framework to improve the gatekeeper functions for entities publishing AI governance tools. Pathways for Improvement: Quality Assurance: Implementing procedural and administrative controls, such as documentation, review, and audit of AI governance tools. Conflict of Interest: Identifying and preventing conflicts of interest in the creation and implementation of these tools. Alignment with Policy Goals: Ensuring the capabilities and functionalities of AI governance tools align with overarching policy goals. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eZtNBJTQ

It still blows my mind that a report by the World Privacy Forum found that 38% of AI governance tools reviewed were problematic and could potentially cause more harm. This is a huge issue because it creates a false sense of confidence in the AI systems. The report is fantastic and I highly recommend everyone reads it! 📚 The AI Policy Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eS8bHrvG 👩💻 The AI Policy Course: https://lnkd.in/eMpqNNd9 #AIpolicy #ArtificialIntelligence #TechPolicy #AIGovernance

ID4Africa’s 10th Annual General Meeting enters a new phase of growth and maturity: A perspective from Civil Society Pam Dixon, Executive Director, World Privacy Forum ID4Africa celebrates its 10th Annual General Meeting this year in Cape Town, South Africa with a program that pushes against multiple boundaries and achieves a new breadth and greater inclusion of diverse stakeholders. ID4Africa’s AGM is easily the most significant identity conference in the world at this point. There are multiple reasons for this; an important one is that the knowledge content at ID4Africa is not replicated anywhere else. In the past, this knowledge base has been focused primarily around government stakeholders. This year, this roster will now carefully expand to civil society organizations that have been deeply involved with African ID systems to gather additional perspectives and foster cooperative dialogue. For the first time, ID4Africa has invited leading civil society organizations to take the plenary stage at the 2024 AGM as full stakeholders in the identity dialogue. While civil society has attended ID4Africa throughout its history, as a collective group civil society has not been featured in a dedicated plenary session before. I am pleased to be representing the World Privacy Forum as a speaker in the civil society plenary. I will be discussing World Privacy Forum’s extensive research and work on privacy, governance, identity ecosystems, and AI impacts as well as the importance of a matured dialogue that is collaborative and respectful of all viewpoints. I am also delighted to be participating in what will now be the second full AGM workshop led by African data protection authorities this year. If you are not going to be in South Africa for the 2024 AGM, I encourage you to take advantage of the YouTube livestream of the major aspects of the conference. ot to be missed is Dr. Atick’s State of African ID Systems Address, which will be livecast 21 May at 8:30 am SAST or UTC/GMT +2 hours. I’ve written a blog post with much more information and photos, which is available at WPF.

World Privacy Forum Joins NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) The World Privacy Forum is pleased to announce that it has joined more than 200 of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) stakeholders to participate in a Department of Commerce initiative to support the development and deployment of trustworthy and safe AI. Established by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on February 8, 2024, the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) brings together AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations to meet this mission. “As a public interest research group, the World Privacy Forum is focused on understanding and documenting how complex data ecosystems impact people and privacy,” said Pam Dixon, Executive Director of World Privacy Forum and Principle Investigator for the project. “We are delighted for our team to join the AISIC to work collaboratively on research-driven solutions applicable to the pressing privacy challenges of our time, and to bring the depth of our decades of privacy, data governance, research expertise and knowledge to the consortium.” See the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gdMe_jPA