Stanford Center for Internet and Society

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Professional/Job Title

Residential Fellow

Bio

M. Ryan Calo is a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society. 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.

Calo received his JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a contributing editor to the Michigan Law Review and symposium editor of the Journal of Law Reform, and his BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College. In 2005-2006, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Guy Cole Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to law school, Calo was an investigator of allegations of police misconduct in New York City.

Calo researches and presents on the intersection of law and technology. He appears regularly in the media to discuss privacy, social networks, and robotics, including recently NPR, KCBS Morning News, the Los Angeles Times, ABCNews.com, the Sacramento Bee, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Portland Herald Press, Best Life Magazine, the San Jose Democrat, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Publications

"Section 230 Immunity for Personal Robotics," Working Paper

"Visceral Notice," Working Paper

"Robots and Privacy," in Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Patrick Lin, George Bekey, and Keith Abney, eds.) (Cambridge: MIT Press) (forthcoming)

"People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension to Privacy and Technology Scholarship," 114 Penn State L. Rev. __ (forthcoming)

"Scylla or Charybdis: Navigating the Jurisprudence of Visual Clutter," 103 Mich. L. Rev. 1877 (2005)

Website

http://www.twitter.com/rcalo

History

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