
Ryan Calo is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and a former research director at CIS. A nationally recognized expert in law and emerging technology, Ryan's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Wired Magazine, and other news outlets. Ryan serves on several advisory committees, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum. He co-chairs the American Bar Association Committee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and serves on the program committee of National Robotics Week.
Petition To Improve PACER
By Ryan Calo • June 17, 2009 at 1:05 pm
A "small band of law librarians," including the wonderful staff here at Stanford, asks you to sign their petition to improve the online court docket system PACER. You can sign here. The petition's text appears in the full post. Read more » about Petition To Improve PACER
PrivacyCamp Washington, DC 2009
By Ryan Calo • June 8, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum (among others), this inaugural "unconference" brings together interested individuals and organizations to share knowledge and foster collaboration. The event is June 20th, 2009, from 8AM to 5PM at the Center for American Progress (1333 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20005). You can register here and Shaun Dakin is the contact should you have any questions. Read more » about PrivacyCamp Washington, DC 2009
Patient Privacy Rights FTC Comments
By Ryan Calo • June 3, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Teneille Brown, Joshua Auriemma, and I helped Patient Privacy Rights draft the public comments it submitted to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. Thanks to Patient Privacy Rights executive director Ashley Katz for the opportunity to assist. Read more » about Patient Privacy Rights FTC Comments
State AG Threats To Craigslist Implicate Free Speech
By Ryan Calo • May 19, 2009 at 3:33 pm
This post is co-authored by Ryan Calo and CIS summer intern Joshua Auriemma.
On Saturday Night Live’s classic segment “Really?!? With Seth & Amy,” two incredulous news anchors blast a ridiculous current event—for instance, the fact that AIG held a lavish retreat six days after receiving 85 billion dollars in federal bailout money to celebrate the company’s top earners. “Really?” Amy Poehler asks. “What does it take to be a top earner at AIG right now? Did you sell your office furniture on Craigslist?”
Some lawyers following the ultimately successful pressure placed by various state attorneys general on Craigslist to take down its erotic services section have experienced a “Really?!?” moment of their own. A particularly unsubtle letter from South Carolina AG Henry McMaster basically threatened Craigslist with "criminal investigation and prosecution" of its management personnel if the popular classifieds website didn’t remove all offending material by 5:00PM, Friday, May 15, 2009. Read more » about State AG Threats To Craigslist Implicate Free Speech
WhatApp? Alpha (Preview)
By Ryan Calo • May 14, 2009 at 4:40 pm
A generous grant from the Rose Foundation has made it possible for the Center to develop WhatApp?, an expert and user-driven review website for software apps that focuses on privacy, security, and other Silicon Values. We now have a working alpha, which we will spend the summer testing, improving, and populating with content in anticipation of a beta next year. The attached is a series of screen shots from a Power Point presentation of the demo. Thanks to Quinn Interactive for their timely, high-quality work thus far. Read more » about WhatApp? Alpha (Preview)
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The Future of Drones In America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
“The Future of Drones In America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations”
March 20, 2013
Full PDF available on the Judiciary website.
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW Read more » about The Future of Drones In America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations
The Drone as Privacy Catalyst
The Drone as Privacy Catalyst, 64 STANFORD LAW REVIEW ONLINE 29 (2011) Read more » about The Drone as Privacy Catalyst
Against Notice Skepticism in Privacy
Against Notice Skepticism, 87 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2012) Read more » about Against Notice Skepticism in Privacy
Privacy's Broken Windows: An Invitation to Professor Abril
Privacy’s Broken Windows: An Invitation to Professor Abril, 1 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW ONLINE 69 (2011) Read more » about Privacy's Broken Windows: An Invitation to Professor Abril
Open Robotics
Open Robotics, 70 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW 571 (2011) Read more » about Open Robotics
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Woman Says Cops Looked up Her License 550 Times
"It seems in some way the officers involved here were treating the DMV records like their own personal Facebook," says CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo in this MSNBC story. Read more » about Woman Says Cops Looked up Her License 550 Times
Why Do Mannequins That Spy On Us Creep Us Out?
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and my go-to source on all things robot: “The fact that the cameras resemble people has two effects, arguably at tension. On the one hand, mannequins accentuate the perception of observation, and hence the subjective privacy harm to casual shoppers. Some scholars explain the discomfort people feel with cameras by talking about the cameras as stand ins for people. Here, the cameras are people—or at least feel like them to us.” Read more » about Why Do Mannequins That Spy On Us Creep Us Out?
Facebook Post Implying User Privacy a Hoax
"If you could just post something and change a relationship, you could just go to Banana Republic and say 'Oh, is your return policy 30 days? Well my return policy is 60 days, so I'll see you then,'" says Calo.
Read full story. Read more » about Facebook Post Implying User Privacy a Hoax
Seattle’s ‘creepy cameraman’ questions our comfort with being watched
"“Technology is a fact about the world. Those facts have changed,” Calo told me. “The law is not unfamiliar with drawing new lines.”" Read more » about Seattle’s ‘creepy cameraman’ questions our comfort with being watched
Use of drones by Seattle police strikes a nerve
"How can they (law enforcement) shepherd us into an age when we have drones if they don't deal with people's privacy fears?" said Ryan Calo, a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Law who has written on the issue of drones and privacy. Read more » about Use of drones by Seattle police strikes a nerve
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Brain-Computer Privacy: A Discussion with Ryan Calo (Past Event)
Presented by the Center for Law and the Biosciences
Brain-computer interfaces are on the rise, but they may be vulnerable to hacking that reveals users' private information. Join us as Ryan Calo discusses the privacy risks of this emerging technology.
This event is free and open to the public, and will feature lunch from Net Appetit.
Related reading: Read more » about Brain-Computer Privacy: A Discussion with Ryan Calo
Robot Block Party 2013 (Past Event)
In celebration of National Robotics Week, the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party returns to the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab @ Stanford on Wednesday, April 10 2013, from 1 to 6pm. Read more » about Robot Block Party 2013
We Robot: Getting Down to Business (Past Event)
The program committee for We Robot: Getting Down To Business invites you to join us for the second annual robotics and the law conference to take place April 8 and 9 at Stanford Law School. This year’s event is focused on the immediate commercial prospects of robotics and will include panels and papers on a wide variety of topics, including: Read more » about We Robot: Getting Down to Business
Weekend in Washington - What's The Big Idea? Technology & The Future of Privacy (Past Event)
Technology Reporter Steven Henn leads a conversation on new innovations in face recognition technology and the legal & ethical challenges they raise with two leading privacy experts: University of Washington Law's Ryan Calo and Carnegie Mellon University's Alessandro Acquisti
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Robots, Privacy & Society (Past Event)
It is not hard to imagine why robots raise privacy concerns. Practically by definition, robots are equipped with the ability to sense, process, and record the world around them. Robots can go places humans cannot go, see things humans cannot see. Robots are, first and foremost, a human instrument. And after industrial manufacturing, the principal use to which we’ve put that instrument has been surveillance. Read more » about Robots, Privacy & Society
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The Center for Law and the Biosciences presents Ryan Calo
April 18, 2013
On April 10, 2013, Stanford's Center for Law and the Biosciences welcomed CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo to campus for a discussion on law and emerging technology, with an emphasis on spyware for your brain. Read more » about The Center for Law and the Biosciences presents Ryan Calo
The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations
March 20, 2013
Hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on “The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations” Read more » about The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations
Open Book Club: A Conversation With Neal Stephenson
October 23, 2012
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo interviews Neal Stephenson, author of Readme. Topics include privacy, virtual economics and security. Beth Cantrell, Greg Lastowka, and Tadayoshi Kohno also included in panel interview. This event was hosted by the University of Washington Law School. Read more » about Open Book Club: A Conversation With Neal Stephenson
Drone Economies (Panel Discussion)
June 18, 2012
DRONE ECONOMIES (Panel Discussion) Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, David Brin, Ryan Calo, moderated by Ricardo Dominguez. Read more » about Drone Economies (Panel Discussion)
Robots, Privacy & Society- Cal Poly
May 29, 2012
It is not hard to imagine why robots raise privacy concerns. Practically by definition, robots are equipped with the ability to sense, process, and record the world around them. Robots can go places humans cannot go, see things humans cannot see. Robots are, first and foremost, a human instrument. And after industrial manufacturing, the principal use to which we’ve put that instrument has been surveillance. This talk explores the various ways that robots implicate privacy and why, absent conscientious legal and design interventions, we may never realize the potential of this transformative technology. Read more » about Robots, Privacy & Society- Cal Poly
