July 3, 2014
Regulating Robots: Co-Director Ryan Calo’s Talk at Aspen Ideas Festival
Recently, Lab Co-Director Ryan Calo spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival and The Atlantic covered his talk and his latest article “Robotics and the New Cyberlaw“. “Law professor Ryan Calo believes that robots are soon going to constitute a more abrupt departure from the technologies that preceded them than did the Internet from personal computers […]
MoreApril 1, 2014
Security and Privacy for Augmented Reality Systems
Communications of the ACM
Augmented Reality (AR) technologies promise to enhance our perception of and interaction with the real world. Unlike virtual reality systems, which replace the real world with a simulated one, AR systems sense properties of the physical world and overlay computer-generated visual, audio, and haptic signals onto real-world feedback in real time. In this article, we consider the security and privacy concerns associated with AR systems themselves as well as those that arise from the supporting technologies.
ArticleMarch 21, 2014
Can You Sue a Robot for Defamation? – (Forbes Cross-Post)
(Image courtesy of Katy Tresedder) Life moves pretty fast. Especially for journalists. When an earthquake aftershock shakes America’s second largest city, news outlets scramble to be the first to cover the story. Today the news itself made news when various outlets picked up on a curious byline over at the Los Angeles Times: “this post […]
MoreNovember 20, 2013
Security the Scariest Part About the Internet of Things – Director Kohno quoted by Washington Post
“Very often we see sectors of the broader industry that are not computer science experts starting to integrate computers into their systems and then start to integrate networks into those systems,” said Kohno. “Because they don’t have experience being attacked by real attackers, like Microsoft and so on, their level of security awareness … appears […]
MoreNovember 17, 2013
When Apps Attack – Director Calo contributes to Forbes.com
(photo credit Johan Larsson) My colleague Yoshi told me an interesting story the other day. He looked down at his smart phone to find a large spider running across it. Understandably, my colleague dropped the phone in surprise. The screen on the phone cracked when it hit the floor. It turns out there was no […]
MoreOctober 29, 2013
An End to Cookie Tracking? – Prof. Calo quoted by The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is saying "The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising and amass valuable user profiles."
ArticleOctober 3, 2013
Tech Policy Lab Co-Directors Quoted in FTC Report on the Internet of Things
FTC
In 2013 the FTC hosted a workshop on The Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World where Lab Faculty Directors Ryan Calo and Yoshi Kohno participated in panels. The below report includes Co-Director Kohno’s recommendation that security should be designed into every IoT product, at every stage of development, including early on in the design cycle of a technology.
ArticleProblematic Advertising Strategy – Ryan Calo featured in The Atlantic
Ryan Calo’s research on Digital Market Manipulation is featured in a new piece by Rebecca Rosen in The Atlantic. “Most of the time, targeted ads are pretty harmless. You searched for a flight to Denver? Here are some hotels in Denver. You looked for new running sneakers? Here are a few options. But a new “study” from marketing […]
MoreSeptember 11, 2013
Sales Pitches From Your Refrigerator (New York Times)
Everyday devices are getting smarter, more connected. Soon your refrigerator will tell you when it’s time to buy milk. But as long as the fridge is making suggestions, why not suggest a particular brand? And did you know you can save 10 cents if you also buy the same brand’s new ice cream? Read Ryan’s […]
MoreSeptember 5, 2013
What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online? (The Atlantic)
The Atlantic explores the erosion of online privacy through the lens of Ryan Calo’s “Digital Market Manipulation”: A new paper by professor Ryan Calo at the University of Washington goes the furthest I have seen in elucidating the potential harms of digital-ad targeting. And his argument basically boils down to this: This isn’t about the […]
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