
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.
Hi Rubber. Have You Met My Friend, The Road?
By Ryan Calo • July 2, 2008 at 11:43 am
Threadbare as it already is, the privacy rubber may not even be meeting the road. A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute implies a disconnect between the perception of privacy officers – charged with formulating company policy – and marketing departments – entrusted with actual custody of customer data – with respect to how consumer information may be used. Read more » about Hi Rubber. Have You Met My Friend, The Road?
City of (Big) Brotherly Love
By Ryan Calo • June 18, 2008 at 8:08 am
I imagine the subset of individuals that read the Center's blogs but not, for instance, Boing Boing to be in the (low) single digits. I still could not resist posting this news story about bearded, community-gardening, anti-surveillance activists in Philly whose house was raided, initially without a warrant. In fairness, the facts are disputed: for instance, local police are calling a structure on the top floor of the raided house a possible "bunker," whereas resident Daniel Moffat (pictured) is calling it a definite "greenhouse." Read more » about City of (Big) Brotherly Love
You Go, Google!
By Ryan Calo • June 16, 2008 at 11:06 am
Daniel Begun of Hot Hardware News reports that "Google will take an even more active role in the debate [over net neutrality] by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs." Read more » about You Go, Google!
Oh (Big) Brother
By Ryan Calo • June 9, 2008 at 10:32 am
Author and fellow SLS fellow Laura K. Donohue brought this deliciously ironic picture to my attention. Click here for a close up.
If you happen to be in the DC area this week, Laura is speaking on her new book, "The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, politics, and liberty," at GW Law School on Wednesday, June 11, and the Women's Foreign Policy Group on Friday, June 13. Read more » about Oh (Big) Brother
Coming Soon: Smell, Touch, And Dead People
By Ryan Calo • June 4, 2008 at 10:42 am
In arguing for the ongoing constitutionality of the commercial/noncommercial distinction in billboard regulation in the wake of City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, I wrote (in 2005) that billboards “can talk and they can listen.” (103 Mich. L. Rev. 1877, 1877). I was referring to the ability of highway billboards to interact with passing motorists by, for instance, eavesdropping on their radio station. No surprise that my three-year-old statement about billboards now seriously undersells them. According to a recent New York Times article:
"[Advertisers] are equipping billboards with tiny cameras that gather details about passers-by — their gender, approximate age and how long they looked at the billboard. These details are transmitted to a central database. . . . Read more » about Coming Soon: Smell, Touch, And Dead People
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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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Drone Journalism, Businesses and Policing — The Pilotless Aircraft Could Soon Fill U.S. Skies
Why Drones May Bring a Renaissance, Not Erosion, of Privacy
A Scary, and Useful, Technology
Ryan Calo's post for the "Drones in Afghanistan, Drones in ... Akron?" forum. Read more » about A Scary, and Useful, Technology
Drones in Afghanistan, Drones in … Akron?
New York Times forum about civilian drones includes CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics Ryan Calo.
Other debaters include Jameel Jaffer (ACLU), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law School), Tim Pool (Journalist) and Jim Harper (Cato Institute) Read more » about Drones in Afghanistan, Drones in … Akron?
Drones May Set Off a Flurry of Lawsuits
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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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Artificial Intelligence - A Legal Perspective - Video
November 1, 2011
October 27, 2011
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Speakers:
Ian Kerr
John O. McGinnis
Lawrence B. Solum
Mary-Anne Williams
Moderator:
Ryan Calo Read more » about Artificial Intelligence - A Legal Perspective - Video
Artificial Intelligence - A Legal Perspective - Audio
October 26, 2011
In the summer of 1956, several key figures in what would become known as the field of "artificial intelligence" met at Dartmouth College to brainstorm about the future of the synthetic mind. Artificial intelligence, broadly defined, has since become a part of everyday life. Although we are still waiting on promises of "strong AI" capable of approximating human thought, the widespread use of artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape medicine, finance, war, and other important aspects of society. Read more » about Artificial Intelligence - A Legal Perspective - Audio
Privacy and Robots
March 9, 2011
Ethics@Noon: M. Ryan Calo
Hosted by Bown H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
January 21, 2011 Read more » about Privacy and Robots
Stanford Throws a Robot Block Party
January 20, 2011
From robots that help perform delicate medical procedures to NASA's rovers, the latest high-tech machines were in the spotlight last week at Stanford's Robot Block Party. The event, sponsored by the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology, was part of National Robotics Week. It was a "celebration of robotics" designed to get people interested in them, said Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Law School who helped organize the event. Read more » about Stanford Throws a Robot Block Party
Stanford Expert Considers Robots and the Law
January 20, 2011
M. Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, is looking at the possible legal ramifications robots and robotics manufacturers might face.
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