Speaker: Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Law, and Affiliate Scholar, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
It is not hard to imagine why drones, telepresence, and other robotic technologies raise privacy concerns. Practically by definition, robots are equipped with the ability to sense, process, and record the world around them. Robots can go places humans cannot go, see things humans cannot see. Robots are, first and foremost, a human instrument. And, after industrial manufacturing, the principal use to which we’ve put that instrument has been surveillance. This talk explores the various ways robots implicate privacy and why, absent conscientious legal and design interventions, we may never realize the potential of this transformative technology.
Ryan Calo researches and presents on the intersection of law and technology. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, and other news outlets. Calo serves on several advisory and program committees, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Future of Privacy Forum, the Mozilla Legal Advisory Board, and National Robotics Week. He also co-chairs the American Bar Association Committee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
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BibTeX
@conference {255743,
title = {Robots and Privacy},
year = {2012},
address = {Bellevue, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}
