Data Collection & Consent: Next Steps for Digital Advertising
As part of the Global Data Protection policy workshop at this year’s Privacy Identity Innovation conference, we hosted a session titled “Data Collection and Con…
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Can policy keep up with technology? New UW lab gets $1.7M from Microsoft
"The three founding directors are Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor at the UW’s School of Law; UW Associate Professor Tadayoshi Kohno, from Computer Science a…
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Can Your iPhone Thumbprint Be Used Against You?
"It isn’t hard to imagine police also forcing a suspect to put his thumb on his iPhone to take a look inside, said Brian Hayden Pascal, a research fellow a…
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UW, Microsoft create Tech Policy Lab
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law and a founding director of the lab, said technology policy can rarely be addressed by a single discipline." *…
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Google can face wiretap claims in Street View suits, court says
""The court makes a number of intuitive holdings, which might seem simple, but the complicated language and structure of the Wiretap Act can make comm…
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How designer Margaret Hagan drew her way through law school
"When Margaret Hagan wanted to understand complex subjects at Stanford Law School, she would sketch talking heads with their words inside bubbles or jot do…
Good Info Design Helps Clients Get Justice
The problem? Not enough access to justice for those in need of legal services.A solution: Legal information design that puts the client first. For CIS Student F…
Framing Big Data and Privacy
Video of the first session from the Big Data & Privacy: Making Ends Meet conference held on September 10, 2013. The event was co-hosted by the Future of Pri…
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Drone Skies: The Unmanned Aircraft Revolution Is Coming Read more: Drone Skies: The Unmanned Aircraft Revolution Is Coming
""Drones drive down the cost of surveillance considerably," Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law, test…
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Killer Robots: Warfare's Friend or Foe?
Peter Asaro, the director of graduate programs at The New School for Public Engagement’s School of Media Studies, is a killer robot expert, and an active member…
Better Engineering, and Better Laws
Part of the New York Times Room for Debate series. It’s a noisy, nosy world. For example, our cellphones are nonstop tracking devices that occasionally make ca…
Sales Pitches From Your Refrigerator
Part of the New York Times Room for Debate series. Everyday devices are getting smarter, more connected. Soon your refrigerator will tell you when it’s time to…