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The Stanford Center for Internet and Society seeks scholars and practitioners interested in a formal affiliation with the Center for the 2012-2014 academic years. There are three categories of affiliation: Read more » about Apply Today: CIS Seeks Affiliates and Fellows

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Robots, Privacy & Society

Posted May 8, 2012 By
May 23, 2012
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It is not hard to imagine why robots 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. Read more » about Robots, Privacy & Society

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May 7, 2012

Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University [and CIS Affiliate Scholar], made the “stand your cyberground”-argument recently in The Atlantic, writing that because the U.S. government is too constrained by international law to lead cyberdefense against foreign attacks, and with private companies having “been the main victims of harmful cyberactivities by foreign actors to date,” we should weigh up allowing “commercial companies to fight cyberfire with cyberfire.”  Read more » about Does 'Stand Your Cyberground' Stand a Chance?

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May 4, 2012

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May 5, 2012

This February, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer published a study that found that Google and three other companies, Vibrant Media Inc., WPP PLC’s Media Innovation Group LLC and Gannett Co.’s PointRoll Inc., were circumventing Apple’s Safari browser’s privacy setting and placing unwanted ad tracking cookies on unsuspecting users computers. Read more » about Big Google May Be Facing Bigger Fines — But at Who's Behest?

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Social Issues in Robotics

Posted May 3, 2012 By
We Robot – April 21-22, 2012
Inaugural Conference on Legal and Policy Issues Relating to Robotics
Panel Presentation: Social Issues in Robotics
Moderator: Ryan Calo
 
Extending Legal Rights to Social Robots (Updated), Kate Darling
Sex Robots and Roboticization of Consent, Sinziana Gutiu
Liar Liar Pants on Fire! Examining the Constitutionality of Enhanced Robo-Interrogation (Updated), Kristen Thomasen

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Last week, Concurring Opinions hosted a symposium on my book.  Here are links to the posts:

Frank Pasquale’s Introduction to the Infrastructure Symposium:

Deven Desai, Education and Infrastructure: Read more » about Commentary on Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources

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April 28, 2012

The internet was another one of those gloriously creative, anarchic technologies that spawned utopian dreams. Its internal architecture – its technical DNA, if you like – enabled an explosion of what Barbara van Schewick called “permissionless innovation”: all you needed to prosper was ingenuity, software skills and imagination. So what the network’s designers created was, in effect, a global machine for springing surprises.

Read the full story at the original publication link below.  Read more » about Has the Internet Run Out of Ideas Already?

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April 30, 2012

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IP Lawyers Meet Tupac’s Hologram

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April 25, 2012

One IP issue that has been discussed recently is ownership and usage of a dead person’s image. As Ryan Calo, the director for privacy and robotics at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, observed here, “if the fear of dying weren’t bad enough, suddenly you lose control over aspects of your legacy.”

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Look Up and Smile for the Drone

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April 25, 2012

 

The Wall Street Journal noted one expert, Stanford Law School researcher Ryan Calo, who said “the domestic use of drones will likely grow as more machines are brought back from war and as prices fall.”
 
“If you bring back a tank from Afghanistan, you don’t expect it to show up in a park,” Calo said.
 
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April 24, 2012

 

‘If the award is upheld, then people will think twice about what they say,’ said Ryan Calo (CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics).
‘Defamation is one area of law in which a jury or court have to figure out how much damage has been done.
 
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Dennis Crouch today reports on John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff.  The crux of this case concerns the disclosing and submitting material prior art to the patent office during patent prosecution.  When this material consists of copyrighted articles like academic journals, problems may arise when subsequent copies are distributed within the law firm, retaining file copies, distribution of pdf’s, and use by a government agency. Read more » about Fair Use during submittal of prior art during patent prosecution: John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen

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More Lawmakers Criticize Cybersecurity Bill

Posted April 24, 2012 By NewsRoom

Last-minute opposition to the CISPA, which has been criticized as a “Big Brother” cybersecurity bill, is growing as the U.S. House of Representatives prepares for a vote. Rep. Ron Paul, the Texas Republican and presidential candidate, warned in a statement and YouTube video today that CISPA represents the “latest assault on Internet freedom.”

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