privacy

California drone bill misses the mark

Diana Marina Cooper 01 Sep 2015

Last week, the California state Assembly approved Senate Bill 142 which, if adopted, would restrict drone operators from flying below 350 feet above ground level (AGL) over real property unless they o...

Is surveillance the new business model for consumer robotics?

Mark Stephen Meadows 06 May 2014

A discussion with Ryan Calo on Google, your personal data, and the consumer robotics market Can someone tell me: What's Google doing, making robots? Or at least: What is it doing, making such acqui...

Privacy, Google, and Big Deals, with Avner Levin

AJung Moon 07 Mar 2014

Link to audio file (33:53) What does it mean to have giants like Google, Apple and Amazon investing in robotics? Since last December, Google alone has acquired a handful of companies in robotics, hom...

How drones will change your life | CNN

CIS Blog 11 Nov 2013

While it may seem that drones are set to take over our lives, the reality is a bit more complicated. Drone usage around the world is definitely picking up in the public sector, but when it comes to co...

Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft

CIS Blog 21 Aug 2013

A town called Deer Trail, located an hour east of Denver, Colo., is considering issuing a novel kind of hunting permit. If passed, the town would give residents licenses to "kill" drones ... by shooti...

My robot is smelling my dirty laundry (or, Notes on privacy, PRISM, and home service robotics)

Mark Stephen Meadows 03 Jul 2013

This article considers privacy in robotic systems (such as personal service robotics) as being of greater importance than privacy in telecommunications (such as Internet). We will return to our regula...

Ryan Calo on spyware for your brain

CIS Blog 18 Apr 2013

Ryan Calo discusses how researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a proof of concept for using commercially available brain-computer interfaces to discover private facts about today's g...

Mayor Bloomberg to NYC: Domestic drones are inevitable | NBC News

CIS Blog 01 Apr 2013

When asked if drone use by the NYPD would be a good idea, New York City mayor Bloomberg replied, "It's not a question of whether I think it's good or bad. I just don't see how you could stop that beca...

Journalism schools start teaching students to fly drones | RT

CIS Blog 01 Apr 2013

Next generation’s Walter Cronkites won’t be learning the traditional tricks and tips used by the journalists of today. Drones could be the next big tool for newsgathering, and some journalism stud...

The more Americans know about drones, the less they like them | Reason.com

CIS Blog 27 Mar 2013

In an influential 2011 article, "The Drone as Privacy Catalyst," law professor Ryan Calo predicted that the dystopian images that drones evoke could spur much-needed reforms to American privacy law. ...

The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)

Mark Stephen Meadows 06 Mar 2013

This article looks at the arrival of systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Watson and claims that these systems are the search engines of the next decade because they mine intimate data. Since they ...

If I fly a UAV over my neighbor’s house, is it trespassing?

Andra Keay 11 Oct 2012

Even a toy drone with an HD camera scrambles our sense of property and privacy rights. See on www.theatlantic.com...