Biography

M. Ryan Calo runs the Consumer Privacy and Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving Projects at the Center for Internet & Society. Prior to joining the law school in 2008, Calo was an associate at Covington & Burling, LLP, where he advised companies on issues of data security, privacy, and telecommunications.

Calo researches and presents on the intersection of law and technology. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, and other news outlets. Calo serves on several advisory and program committees, including Computers Freedom Privacy 2010, the Future of Privacy Forum, and National Robotics Week. He also co‐chairs the American Bar Association Committee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Calo received his JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a contributing editor to the Michigan Law Review and symposium editor of the Journal of Law Reform, and his BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College. In 2005‐2006, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Guy Cole Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to law school, Calo was an investigator of allegations of police misconduct in New York City.

Key Works

• M. Ryan Calo, The Boundaries of Privacy Harm, 86 Indiana Law Journal 1131 (2011).
• M. Ryan Calo, People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension to Privacy and Technology Scholarship, 114 Pennsylvania State Law Review 809 (2010).
• M. Ryan Calo, Scylla or Charybdis: Navigating the Jurisprudence of Visual Clutter, 103 Michigan Law Review 1877 (2005).

In the News

• If Your Robot Car Crashes, Who Pays The Bill?
  The Washington Post - Wonk Blog, February 06, 2012
• New To The US: Microsoft Uses Privacy As A Selling Tool
  KUOW.org 94.9 FM Radio, February 02, 2012
• Why Privacy Policies Don't Work - And What Might
  San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2012
• Online Privacy Battle Brings Gains, Setbacks
  San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2012
• Google's New Privacy Policy Means More Sharing
  Marketplace Tech, January 26, 2012

Courses & Programs

Programs

• Consumer Privacy Project (CPP), Director, Privacy and Robotics - Center for Internet & Society

Publications & Cases

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• M. Ryan Calo, Against Notice Skepticism, 87 Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
• M. Ryan Calo, Robots and Privacy, in Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics, Patrick Lin, George Bekey, and Keith Abney, eds., Cambridge: MIT Press (forthcoming 2011).
• M. Ryan Calo, The Drone as Privacy Catalyst, 64 Stanford Law Review Online 29 (2011).
• Ryan Calo, DRM for Privacy. Part 2, Concurring Opinions blog, August 14, 2011.
• Ryan Calo, DRM for Privacy. Part 1, Concurring Opinions blog, August 11, 2011.
• Ryan Calo, Tracking Is Possible, but Maybe Not Wise, Room for Debate, a Running Commentary on the News, New York Times, August 7, 2011.
• Ryan Calo, Will Drones Save Privacy Law?, Concurring Opinions, August 5, 2011.
• M. Ryan Calo, Open Robotics, VoxPopuLII blog, July 1, 2011.
• M. Ryan Calo, Open Robotics, 70 Maryland Law Review 571 (2011)
• M. Ryan Calo, The Boundaries of Privacy Harm, 86 Indiana Law Journal 1131 (2011).