March 22, 2019
Lab Co-Director Ryan Calo Discusses Data and Privacy
Geekwire and KUOW
Lab Co-Director Ryan Calo discusses data and privacy on a panel hosted by KUOW and Geekwire with Marketplace Tech's Molly Wood.
ArticleFebruary 13, 2019
Co-Director Batya Friedman inducted into the CHI Academy
UW iSchool
"Three University of Washington professors, including two from the Information School, have been inducted into the CHI Academy – recognized as the highest honor in the field of human-computer interaction."
ArticleOctober 3, 2018
Lab Team Pens Op-Ed on Regulating Bot Speech
BuzzFeed News
Co-Director Ryan Calo and Fellow Madeline Lamo discuss bot disclosure laws in an op-ed published by BuzzFeed News.
ArticleJuly 16, 2015
How Information Asymmetry Helped Find Abducted Kids
Washington Post
Lab Co-Director Ryan Calo is featured in a Washington Post article describing how police used Spotify and other streaming services to located abducted kids in Mexico.
ArticleMay 15, 2015
Lab members research on Teleoperated Robots Featured by MIT Tech Review
MIT Tech Review
Lab members Tamara Bonaci and Howard Chizeck's work on the security of Teleoperated robots has recently been featured in a number of science news reports including MIT Tech, Popular Science, and Ars Technica. "Tamara Bonaci and pals at the University of Washington in Seattle examine the special pitfalls associated with the communications technology involved in telesurgery. In particular, they show how a malicious attacker can disrupt the behavior of a telerobot during surgery and even take over such a robot, the first time a medical robot has been hacked in this way."
ArticleSeptember 21, 2014
Co-Director Batya Friedman Discusses “Can We Build A Safer Internet?” in The New York Times
The New York Times
In a recent article the New York Times asked "Can We Build a Safer Internet?" They examined whether the harassment and hateful internet of today could one day change for the better and discussed the issue with Co-Director Batya Friedman: "The question for designers of online communities, she said, is 'how do we either create virtual norms that are comparable, or how do we represent those things so that people are getting those cues, so they modulate their behavior?'"
ArticleSeptember 12, 2014
EFF Thanks Franzi Roesner for Her Help With “Privacy Badger”
Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released a new browser add-on that prevents ads, social widgets, and hidden trackers. Tech Policy Lab alum Franzi Roesner was thanked by the EFF “for exceptional work in enhancing Privacy Badger’s widget-handling algorithms.”
MoreJuly 17, 2014
Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot Filled-Future – Director Calo in Wired
Wired
Lab Director Ryan Calo was recently on a robotics panel at UC Berkeley that has been featured on Wired.
ArticleCould Jibo Developer Cynthia Breazeal Be The Steve Wozniak of Robots? (Forbes Cross-post)
Bill Gates once predicted we would have a robot in every home to go with our personal computer. James Temple of is calling Jibo—a new personal robot to be sold commercially in 2015—“one of the most ambitious and affordable robots for the home that [he has] seen.” I agree. Developed by social robotics pioneer and […]
MoreJuly 7, 2014
Consumer Subject Review Boards: Co-Director Ryan Calo on NPR Marketplace
NPR
Following the news about a Facebook study on the effects of changing the positive or negative comments on a user's News Feed, many articles have taken Facebook to task for experimenting on their users. Others have pointed out that this study is in line with using algorithms to tailor content, and suggest new processes for companies to handle such research. Recently, Co-Director Ryan Calo was interviewed on NPR's Market Place Tech about his 2013 suggestion for Consumer Subject Review Boards.
Article