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Amazon testing delivery by drone, CEO Bezos says
""The FAA would not let Amazon do this now," said Ryan Calo, an expert on robotics, privacy and the law at the University of Washington. "Bu…
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'What if an Amazon delivery drone crashes into me?' and 6 other key questions
"Ryan Calo, professor of law at the University of Washington, told NBC News that he expects the timeline to be a bit more stretched out, but that drone del…
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Here are the three things Amazon needs to get its delivery drones off the ground
"Once you build an octocopter that can make a 10-mile trip in half an hour and create a system to manage it, you start getting to the really interesting qu…
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Amazon’s aerial delivery drones: How Jeff Bezos’ big idea could actually fly
"“I think of this as yet another indication that robotics is the next transformative technology after the Internet,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor…
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Civil liberties lawyer arguing against the NSA spying programs
"Although she spent several years as a criminal defense attorney, defending “all kinds” of interesting characters, Jennifer Stisa Granick, the director of…
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Amazon drones and the future of retail
"Ryan Calo is an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington. He wonders if Jeff Bezos’ plan for drones will fall inside the existing law.…
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Amazon envisions eventually delivering packages in 30 minutes via drones
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who has written extensively about drones, said that this is precisely the kind of application C…
Flightless Drones
Cross-posted from Forbes. One big issue with regulating new technology is defining it. An early version of the Nevada driverless car law appeared, on my read,…
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Researchers use NSA’s own tactics to see how invasive NSA spying is
"Stanford researchers are trying to act like the NSA in order to learn about the NSA. Researchers Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler created MetaPhone, an…
NSA SEXINT is the Abuse You’ve All Been Waiting For
Cross-posted from Just Security. In the latest news report based on documents revealed by Edward Snowden, we’ve learned that the NSA creates profiles of porn v…
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NSA SEXINT is the Abuse You’ve All Been Waiting For
In the latest news report based on documents revealed by Edward Snowden, we’ve learned that the NSA creates profiles of porn viewing, online sexual activity and…
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Is the World Ready for Self-Driving Cars?
Listen to the full interview over at KCRW. The cars of today are almost fully automated, and the smart technology for driverless cars has now been developed. W…