The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
The United States military makes massive use of unmanned aerial vehicles or "drones." This technology is likely to see greater and greater domestic use as well. Center staff and affiliates have emerged as thought leaders on the legal and policy aspects surrounding this potentially transformative technology.
M. Ryan Calo runs the research around privacy and robotics, including the Disclosure by Design and Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving Projects. Prior to joining the law school in 2008, Calo was an associate at Covington & Burling, LLP, where he advised companies on issues of data security, privacy, and telecommunications. Read more » about Ryan Calo
Catherine Crump is an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. She litigates cases on many issues, from challenges to invasive government surveillance programs, to protecting the right to engage in political protest, to suing police officers for excessive force. Current cases include constitutional challenges to the government’s authority to engage in suspicionless searches of laptops at the international border and to its assertion that it can track the location of cell phones without a warrant. Read more » about Catherine Crump
Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has published several books and papers in the field of technology ethics, especially with respect to nanotechnology, human enhancement, robotics, and military technologies. He teaches courses in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of law. Dr. Read more » about Patrick Lin
By Ryan Calo • March 5, 2012 at 12:58 pm
The Examiner is reporting that a prototype drone crashed into a Texas Montgomery Read more » about Drone Crash
By Ryan Calo • January 20, 2012 at 3:51 pm
As robots leave the factory and battlefield and enter our homes, hospitals, and skies, it is not clear who will come to regulate them. But we can begin to spot some interesting patterns. Students of this transformative technology should keep their eye on both the claims and disavowals of authority over robots by state and federal agencies. Each hold potential dangers for our civil liberties and for the future of robotics. Read more » about Who Will Regulate Robots?
By Ryan Calo • December 12, 2011 at 1:27 pm
The Los Angeles Times quotes me over the weekend in its front page story about the use of a Predator B drone to catch a civilian suspect in North Dakota. In my comments, I allude to how the domestic use of drones may paradoxically help drag privacy law into the twenty-first century. Stanford Law Review Online just published my short article on this topic. You can find the full text here. Thoughts welcome. Read more » about To Catch With A Predator
By Ryan Calo • August 11, 2011 at 9:11 pm
I'm guest blogging over at Concurring Opinions this month. My first post explored what the domestic use of drones would mean for privacy law. I also did a two-part post on "DRM for Privacy." Here is the first post. And the second. Excerpt below. Thoughts welcome.
Online privacy has been getting quite a bit of attention of late. But the problem seems as intractable as ever. In a pair of posts, I will explore one aspect of the online privacy debate and, drawing from a controversial corner of copyright law, suggest a modest fix. This first post discusses the problem of consumer tracking and the lack of any good solutions. You may want to skip this post if you are familiar with the online privacy ecosystem (and uninterested in correcting my oversimplifications and mistakes). The next post discusses how an often criticized provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act—the anti-circumvention clause—might hold lessons for consumer privacy. This provision prohibits tampering with so-called digital rights management. The law has its problems as a mechanism to enforce copyright. As applied to consumers’ efforts to protect their privacy, however, a few of Section 1201’s bugs metamorphose into features. Read more » about Guest Blogging At Concurring Opinions
February 27, 2012
2012 Stanford Law Review Symposium
Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society Read more » about Drones - Privacy Paradox: Privacy and Its Conflicting Values (Audio)
February 27, 2012
2012 Stanford Law Review Symposium
Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society
February 2, 2012
Welcome & Drones Discussion
- Stephen Morris, MLB Company
- Ryan Calo, Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society
- Catherine Crump, American Civil Liberties Union Read more » about Drones - Privacy Paradox: Privacy and Its Conflicting Values (Video)
