World Privacy Forum » Biometrics

Today the Biden-Harris Administration published a Memorandum that sets forth how U.S. Federal Agencies and Executive Departments will govern their use of Artificial Intelligence. The OMB memorand...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2024/03/initial-analysis-of-the-new-u-s-governance-for-federal-agency-use-of-artificial-intelligence-including-biometrics/

WPF’s Pam Dixon will be in Kigali, Rwanda to be the lead instructor on a course on digital identity ecosystems as a lecturer for Carnegie Mellon University, as part of their CEE-TP Courses for ...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2024/02/wpf-executive-director-to-teach-cmu-course-on-digital-identity-in-rwanda-africa/

The World Privacy Forum is pleased to announce Executive Director Pam Dixon has been invited to serve as the Senior Special Rapporteur for two workshops at the 2023 ID4Africa Annual General Meeti...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2023/04/wpf-executive-director-to-serve-as-senior-rapporteur-for-id4africa-regarding-policy-and-regulatory-challenges-for-digital-identity-and-privacy-and-data-protection-in-id-systems/

Identity is a data-rich resource that acts as a key to connect all levels of emerging digital ecosystems. All forms of ID carry some risk, but digital forms of ID, or “dematerialized ID,” cut...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2022/09/identity-ecosystems-are-a-central-aspect-of-global-digitalization-the-principle-of-do-no-harm-must-be-a-policy-priority-and-commitment/

The Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) will be holding a High Level Forum on Digital Transformation in connection with OECD. The event will be held 16 May 2022 in hybrid...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2022/05/ispi-forum-on-digital-transformation-wpf-speaker/

WPF is pleased to announce the publication of new work by our Executive Director, Pam Dixon, in the March 2022 Turkish Policy Quarterly. “This journal article is an outgrowth of long work loo...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2022/03/an-ecosystems-approach-to-biometric-regulation/

WPF launched a mini-documentary about problems in identity systems on 17 November, 2021 in collaboration with ID4Africa. Digital identity systems are generally accepted as positive tools for soci...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/11/wpf-mini-documentary-on-problems-in-id-systems-launches-live/

About this Data Visualization: This interactive map displays the presence of National IDs and electronic IDs, including biometric IDs, in countries globally. The raw dataset used to create the ma...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/10/national-ids-and-biometrics/

In comments filed with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, WPF supported proposed language for Comment 235.7 (A)-1, Scope of Restriction, with the understanding that more needs to be done to ...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/08/wpf-urges-the-federal-reserve-board-of-governors-to-ensure-quality-assurance-and-control-mechanisms-for-biometric-authentication-in-debit-card-payment-systems/

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has withdrawn a proposed rulemaking related to biometric collection, USCIS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0007. Last year, WPF urged DHS to withdraw this biom...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/05/rule-creating-mandatory-biometric-requirement-for-children-withdrawn-by-dhs-wpf-submitted-comments-requesting-withdrawal-in-2020/