Pam Dixon – PSV2019
Founder & Executive Director, World Privacy Forum
Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum. An author and researcher, she has written respected and influential studies in the area of privacy, identity, biometrics, AI, data brokers, health privacy, and other topics. Dixon conducted substantive biometrics research in India, which formed the basis of a scholarly article analyzing India’s Aadhaar, biometrics, and EU-US data protection policy, A Failure to Do No Harm, (Springer-Nature). This work was cited in the landmark 2018 Supreme Court of India Aadhaar decision. Dixon was the lead author and researcher on a groundbreaking report on predictive analytics and financial, medical, and other scoring mechanisms, The Scoring of America. She researched and wrote the first report on medical identity theft, identifying and bringing that topic to the public for the first time. Dixon has written 8 books and numerous other privacy studies. She is an expert advisor to OECD on AI, and has been an OECD advisor on health data uses. Her next book on privacy is set to be published in 2019.
Dixon was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University’s Sturm School of Law where she researched and wrote about technology-related privacy issues. Dixon has testified before the US Congress, including the US Senate, and Federal agencies, and is frequently quoted in the media regarding privacy issues. She serves on the editorial board of the Harvard-based Journal of Technology Science. She is the author of 8 books, including Online Privacy with Robert Gellman. She was the editor of Surveillance in America, An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and the Law (2016).
Pam Dixon is the founder and executive director of the World Privacy Forum. An author and researcher, she has written respected and influential studies in the area of privacy, identity, biometrics, AI, data brokers, health privacy, and other topics. Dixon conducted substantive biometrics research in India, which formed the basis of a scholarly article analyzing India’s Aadhaar, biometrics, and EU-US data protection policy, A Failure to Do No Harm, (Springer-Nature). This work was cited in the landmark 2018 Supreme Court of India Aadhaar decision. Dixon was the lead author and researcher on a groundbreaking report on predictive analytics and financial, medical, and other scoring mechanisms, The Scoring of America. She researched and wrote the first report on medical identity theft, identifying and bringing that topic to the public for the first time. Dixon has written 8 books and numerous other privacy studies. She is an expert advisor to OECD on AI, and has been an OECD advisor on health data uses. Her next book on privacy is set to be published in 2019.
Dixon was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University’s Sturm School of Law where she researched and wrote about technology-related privacy issues. Dixon has testified before the US Congress, including the US Senate, and Federal agencies, and is frequently quoted in the media regarding privacy issues. She serves on the editorial board of the Harvard-based Journal of Technology Science. She is the author of 8 books, including Online Privacy with Robert Gellman. She was the editor of Surveillance in America, An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and the Law (2016).
