Ryan Calo runs the Consumer Privacy Project 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 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.
Calo researches and presents on the intersection of law and technology. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal Blog, Smart Money, Digg, Slashdot, and other national and local media. Calo serves on several advisory and program committees, including Computers Freedom Privacy 2010, the Future of Privacy Forum, and National Robotics Week.
Publications
"Visceral Notice," Working Paper
"The Boundaries of Privacy Harm," 86 Indiana Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2011)
"Robots and Privacy," in Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Patrick Lin et al eds.), Cambridge: MIT Press (forthcoming 2011)
"People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension to Privacy and Technology Scholarship," 114 Penn State Law Review 809 (2010)
"Scylla or Charybdis: Navigating the Jurisprudence of Visual Clutter," 103 Michigan Law Review 1877 (2005)
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/profile/ryan-calo