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"Another way to understand the constitutionality of revenge porn statutes is through the lens of confidentiality law. Woodrow Hartzog persuasively contends that revenge porn is a “legally actionable breach of confidence.”" Read more » about Debunking the First Amendment Myths Surrounding Revenge Porn Laws

"“You need to have an engineer, an attorney, a business guy all on the same team to spur innovation. You can’t just have a bunch of attorneys sitting in a room,” says Margaret Hagan, Stanford Institute of Design fellow." Read more » about Laying the Groundwork for a Reflective IP Strategy

"“We were able to identify a number of patterns that were highly indicative of sensitive activities or traits,” Mayer said, offering an example of one participant that had contacted several local neurology groups, a specialty pharmacy, a rare-condition management service and a pharmaceutical hotline used for multiple sclerosis." Read more » about Researchers find metadata reveals personal information

"At the conference, cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo discussed his forthcoming paper "Robotics and the New Cyberlaw." Internet law defined the vanguard of cyberlaw issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but Calo argues that the next wave of legal showdowns will relate to robotics, which have an altogether different set of essential qualities when compared with the Internet. Robotics blurs the line between people and instruments. More so than any other technology in history, robots feel to us like social actors. Read more » about As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers

"In the United States, someone injured by a small drone would have a strong case against the person remotely flying it, even if the injured party was simply startled by the drone and fell down, Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington, told NBC News.

It’s not that different from lawsuits involving any other product. The story might be different, however, if the drone was hacked. Read more » about Drone Crashes Could Cause Headaches and Lawsuits

"Public sensitivity about privacy was heightened by revelations of U.S. surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, as leaked by former spy contractor Edward Snowden, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who recently wrote a paper about the legal and social implications of robotics." Read more » about Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data

"The sociopolitical ramifications are astonishing when the future is examined in reference to emerging technology. For instance, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, will be introducing a paper entitled “Robots and the New Cyberlaw” in which he will detail distinctive ethical quandaries segregated from automation and will cover embodiment, or physical extension into the world as well as mobility, emergence and a machine’s capacity to learn, and the most evocative, social meaning in reference to artificial intelligence." Read more » about WeRobot 2014 Conference Begins in Miami

"But one of the important conceptual questions is what is a robot in the social sense, and what makes robots in society different from automation, cyber, or other technologies. Ryan Calo (UWashington) takes this up in one of the most useful, thoughtful papers on what makes a robot and why care I’ve read in years. He offers features of advancing social robots that importantly distinguish them, and are likely to distinguish them from other technologies in law, morals, regulation, and policy." Read more » about WeRobot2014 Conference Underway at University of Miami

"“This is the first case I’ve seen precisely along these lines,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law at the Cumberland School of Law at Sanford University in Alabama.

“So one thing that’s interesting to me is that there’s this challenge to this image, it strikes me that there is nothing truly exceptional about a video camera as a surveillance system. But that’s not the only thing that a red light camera does. There’s an algorithm that monitors when a car has violated the law.”" Read more » about With California’s red light cameras, are pictures admissible evidence?