Ryan Calo

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• Airlines Can Keep You From Snapping, But Not Sharing Photos. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - NPR A recent incident on a commercial airliner raises an interesting question: can an airline bar you from taking pictures on their plane? (5/15/13)
• Boston Bombings Show Future Use for Police Drones. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Govtech.com Even if police drones weren’t used in the manhunt for the Boston Marathon suspects, drones have become central to the post-bombing discussion of surveillance techniques. (5/6/13)
• Privacy Concerns Shouldn’t Ground Journalism Drones. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Slate Under existing laws, camera-equipped drones engaged in communicative photography would enjoy First Amendment protection—even if a number of operational hurdles, including public safety, trespass, data protection, and property law considerations have yet to be resolved.  (5/6/13)
• Brain hack: Researchers fear attacks on the mind. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - SF Chronicle As neuroscience advances, security of brain-wave devices is paramount.
  (4/29/13)
• Surveillance cameras and the Boston Marathon bombing. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - L.A. Times Investigators in the Boston Marathon bombing closed in on suspects with surprising alacrity, shifting from "few leads" to "possible arrests" in a matter of hours. That's due in part to the ample resources and expertise that city, state and federal authorities threw at the crime scene. (4/19/13)
• Will lawsuits kill the autonomous car? Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - MSN.com While no one has the answer, a recent conference at Stanford provides clues to the legal precedents that could pave the way for self-driving cars. (4/15/13)
• Washington House Panel rejects push for passwords, Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - Associated Press An amendment that would have allowed bosses to ask for a worker's Facebook or other social media password during company investigations was withdrawn on Wednesday from a bill in the Legislature. (4/5/13)
• Cops Need A Warrant To Use Drug Dogs Outside A Home. Prof Ryan Calo is quoted - NPR The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Tuesday that using a drug-sniffing dog right outside a home to alert police to marijuana growing inside is unconstitutional. It's a violation of the homeowner's Fourth Amendment protection against a search without probable cause. (3/26/13)
• University of Missouri Is Teaching Journalism Students How to Fly Drones. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - Time Magazine Forget mastering the Associated Press style guide; some journalism students now need to learn the fine science of flying drones.
  (3/26/13)
• Current Laws May Offer Little Shield Against Drones, Senators Are Told. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - New York Times (3/21/13)
• House to consider rewrite of copyright law. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - Hillicon Valley The House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet will hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider whether to update copyright laws.
  (3/20/13)
• Google Hastens to Show Its Concern for Privacy, Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - New York Times Silicon Valley hates being told what to do. “Better to seek forgiveness than permission” is its unofficial slogan.This week, though, Google was told what to do. In the culmination of a two-year investigation into whether its Street View violated privacy protections, law-enforcement officials told the company to shape up. Again (3/14/13)
• Google Glass half full: Why that ‘ban’ may not be needed. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - GeekWire

  Is Google’s “Project Glass” a wearable computing device or the final, shattering blow to the world as we know it? These days, it’s hard to tell.

  (3/13/13)
• Drones Come Home, Privacy Concerns Fly High. Prof. Ryan Calo comments - NPR Across the country, law enforcement and first responders are flying unmanned aircrafts to take aerial photographs of traffic accidents and crime scenes. As the technology improves and more police departments acquire permits to fly them, concerns about privacy and regulation increase. (3/7/13)
• Drones in the sky might have their eyes on you. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - Detroit Free Press

  Perhaps best known for their role in military operations overseas, an increasing number of drones are taking to U.S. skies. Most are much smaller and far less sophisticated than the Predator drones used by the U.S. military.

  They can be deployed in a police standoff, sent up to give firefighters real-time information on fighting a fire or used by a real estate company to create an aerial video tour of a home for sale.

  (3/7/13)
• New robots in the workplace: Job creators or job terminators? Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - Washington Post (3/7/13)
• Bad laws would hurt good drones, by Prof. Ryan Calo - CNN Potential creative uses of drones are endless and bad laws could prevent them. (3/5/13)
• Op-Ed by Ryan Calo: The Catch-22 That Prevents Us From Truly Scrutinizing the Surveillance State - The Atlantic (3/5/13)
• Should we put robots on trial? Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Boston Globe As machines get smarter — and sometimes cause harm — we’re going to need a legal system that can handle them. (3/1/13)
• Redefining "Cybercrime" after Aaron Swartz, a roundtable discussion. Ryan Calo to moderate In this roundtable discussion, Marcia Hofmann (Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Brian Rowe (Adjunct Professor, Seattle University School of Law) will explore the legislative and non-legislative possibilities for rethinking “cybercrime.” Prof. Ryan Calo will moderate. (2/26/13)
• The Backlash Against Drones, Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - National Journal Flying robots can improve policing and assist in search-and-rescues. But they're also good atdomestic spying, and that raises privacy concerns. Professor Ryan Calo is quoted. (2/26/13)
• Data theft: Guess who the FTC is targeting? Prof. Ryan Calo quoted - LA Times The Federal Trade Commission opened a potentially significant new front Friday in its efforts to protect consumers against data theft. The commission announced a settlement with mobile device manufacturer HTC America that requires the company to plug security holes in millions of smartphones and tablet computers, develop a comprehensive approach to data protection and undergo independent security assessments every other year. Professor Ryan Calo is quoted. (2/25/13)
• Ohio Plans Drones to Hunt Lost Kids as They Bring Jobs, Prof. Ryan Calo Quoted - Bloomberg As the Federal Aviation Administration works to incorporate drones into U.S. airspace for civilian uses, and states such as Ohio plan to become leaders in their manufacture, lawmakers in Congress, states including Virginia and local governments are weighing limits to preserve privacy. Prof. Ryan Calo quoted. (2/20/13)
• Why Americans Are Saying No to Domestic Drones. Prof. Ryan Calo's essay on drones is referenced - Slate

  States and cities are increasingly passing legislation to stop the use of surveillance drones.

  (2/13/13)
• Prof Ryan Calo on KUOW for a conversation about privacy laws in the United States - KUOW Calo's interview is at the beginning of the program (2/11/13)
• Privacy concerns and the use of unmanned drones. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Denver Post (2/11/13)
• Who is allowed to fly a drone? Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - The Toronto Star A law passed last year by President Barack Obama gave U.S. regulators until September 2015 to cobble together rules to oversee unmanned flight. (2/8/13)
• Must job hunters reveal Facebook passwords? Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Seattle Times The Washington state Legislature is considering a bill to prohibit companies from asking job applicants for passwords to social-networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Debates over social media in the workplace are taking place across the country. (2/4/13)
• Privacy worries may stall commercial use of drones. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Denver Post "If we don't fix the privacy problems for civil liberties, we'll never realize the benefits from drones," said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in robotics and privacy. "Folks will be afraid and object."
  (2/4/13)
• Who’s Watching Those Unblinking Eyes in the Sky? Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Inter Press Service Calo states that privacy issues surrounding the use of drones are also limiting the technology’s constructive potential. (1/28/13)
• London's Tube Is Getting 'Contactless' Payments. Could They Work in the U.S.? Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - The Atlantic London's transit agency, Transportation for London, announced the rollout of contactless credit card readers on all of the city's 8,500 buses last month, allowing riders to charge their bus fare directly to their bank accounts. (1/23/13)
• With Facebook search, users may lose their sense of obscurity. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - LA Times (1/16/13)
• The Privacy Guide to Facebook's New Graph Search. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Atlantic Wire Like all things Facebook, the social network's new Graph Search will certainly generate privacy worries. (1/16/13)
• Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris issues mobile apps privacy guidelines. Prof Ryan Calo is quoted - LA Times California's top cop has issued guidelines on what steps software developers should take to protect the privacy of consumers on mobile devices. (1/10/13)
• Prof. Ryan Calo appeared on the Today Show to discuss a privacy case (1/7/13)
• From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Year in Privacy and Security. Prof. Ryan Calo is listed - Wired It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s a Government Spybot! (1/2/13)
• Ryan Calo on CNN: When is Social Media Use Illegal? (12/18/12)
• FTC: Apps For Children Raise Privacy Concerns. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - NPR (12/13/12)
• Juror’s ‘research’ forced mistrial in child rape case. Prof. Ryan Calo comments - Everett Herald The man did research on his own, a growing concern as staying connected to information becomes second nature (12/12/12)
• Why do mannequins that spy on us creep us out? Prof Ryan Calo is quoted - Forbes There are cameras everywhere. They’re like cockroaches; for every one you actually notice, there are hundreds more that you don’t. (Though they’re not scurrying around in the walls, yet.) Given their ubiquity it’s rare these days to hear a complaint about cameras in public places such as stores, unless they’re hidden in a fitting room or bathroom. But last week, much of the media was in an uproar over store cameras. Why? Because they were placed inside mannequins. (12/4/12)
• Facebook post implying user privacy a hoax. UW Law prof. Ryan Calo says it's legal jibberish - KQED (11/27/12)
• UND reviews ethics of unmanned aircraft research. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Minnesota Public Radio (11/21/12)
• Seattle’s ‘creepy cameraman’ questions our comfort with being watched. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Seattle Times

  The three videos in this mysterious “Surveillance Camera Man” series have attracted hundreds of thousands of page views and lots of questions as they’ve spread from blogs to Reddit and around the Web. Is this a social experiment or some jerk having fun? Commenters are giving mixed reviews, calling the videos everything from horrific to hilarious, and their creator everything from a moron to a genius.

  (11/14/12)
• Use of drones by Seattle police strikes a nerve. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Seattle Times For years, law-enforcement agencies, including several in the Seattle area, have used helicopters and airplanes for search-and-rescue missions, manhunts, SWAT-team operations, traffic control and car chases. But the Seattle Police Department's plan to use drone aircraft has come under fire by some who fear loss of privacy. (11/5/12)
• Fear of Flying Eyes. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted (article in German) - Der Spiegel By 2020 30,000 drones will be flying all over the USA. The population is horrified and people in Germany are increasingly worried as well. 
  (10/26/12)
• Zillow now lists homes in foreclosure. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - LA Times The free Zillow feature allows home buyers and others to view homes that aren't listed for sale but are headed that way because of financial distress. Critics cite privacy concerns. (10/26/12)
• Prof. Ryan Calo will be speaking about privacy and technology at NPR’s annual Weekend in Washington, November 9 - 11 (10/15/12)
• If I Fly a UAV Over My Neighbor's House, Is It Trespassing? Ryan Calo is quoted - The Atlantic Even a toy drone with an HD camera scrambles our sense of property and privacy rights. (10/10/12)
• With a push from Google, California legalizes driverless cars. Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law, is quoted - New York Times California drivers could soon see cars on the road driving themselves, courtesy of Google and the state government. (9/26/12)
• How much data can Facebook collect before the FTC gets involved? Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - The Atlantic Wire Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix, which gives Facebook access to our offline shopping habits via our rewards cards, by explaining that it doesn't violate any Federal Trade Commission regulations. (9/24/12)
• Ask the experts: Drones. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - PBS (9/17/12)
• Law Students Should Embrace Social Media, Study Suggests - US News and World Report

  U.S. World & News Report discusses whether law students should embrace social media.  Prof. Ryan Calo quoted.

  (9/10/12)
• Hackers claim FBI file12 million Apple device IDs. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - SF Gate A hacking collective on Monday released what it claims are more than one million unique device numbers for Apple products that it allegedly pulled from an FBI agent’s laptop. (9/4/12)
• Twitter’s chief lawyer defends free speech. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - New York Times Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his company.         (9/3/12)
• Drone-tracking app gets no traction from Apple. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - NPR

  Josh Begley created an app that sends a push notification to an iPhone whenever there is a U.S. drone strike anywhere in the world. Apple blocked it from its App Store.

  (8/31/12)
• Websites accused of collecting kids' online data. Prof. Ryan Calo is quoted - Marketplace Tech A group of consumer advocate organizations has filed a complaintwith the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that several companies, including McDonald's and General Mills, are violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. (8/23/12)