Robot-Sized Gaps in Surveillance Law
Editor(s)
Marc Rotenberg, Julia Horwritz & Jeramie Scott
Files
Description
The past several years have seen a renewed interest in robotics, including by lawmakers. More than a dozen states have one or more robot-specific laws on the books. One of the issues lawmakers are concerned about is privacy. Thus, several states now limit how public or private entities may use drones for surveillance.
That robotics would raise privacy concerns is hardly surprising: robots implicate privacy practically by definition. Robots differ from previous and constituent technologies such as laptops precisely in that they proactively explore the physical world. But, owing to the inability of lawmakers and courts to think more broadly about robotics as a technology, emerging law creates or fails to close certain gaps in privacy law.
Title of Book
Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions
ISBN
9781620971079
Publication Date
2015
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
The New Press
City
New York
Disciplines
Law Enforcement and Corrections | Science and Technology Law
Recommended Citation
Ryan Calo,
Robot-Sized Gaps in Surveillance Law, in
Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions
41
(Marc Rotenberg, Julia Horwritz & Jeramie Scott eds., 2015).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-books/19