Ryan Calo

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Society + Tech initiative leads lively talk on privacy, surveillance Would you want police to use facial recognition technology to identify you while you walk down the street? While it’s prohibited in King County, some cit...

UW Society + Technology initiative panelists @rcalo.bsky.social (Information School, UW Law), Martin Kaste (@npr.org) and Brie McLemore (UW Poli Sci) recently had a lively discussion on privacy, facial recognition tech, and differing attitudes toward surveillance. ischool.uw.edu/news/2026/01...

No :( These are all in person and off the record

Flier for a free discussion of personal robots in Seattle

Personal Robots: Is It Finally Time? Monday, February 9 in #Seattle

Why Apple and OpenAI are reportedly betting on AI hardware in 2026 Tech giants are betting that we are finally ready to invite a persistent digital device into our lives

AI's Next Battleground Is Your Body www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care.

NEW: Data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among factors, according to @EPIC.org, causing a “health privacy crisis” in the United States, eroding trust and deterring people from seeking medical care.

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?

Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.

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Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners Also available in Spanish.

If you are organizing folks in Minneapolis right now, you may find this guide to Signal for beginners by @mshelton.bsky.social useful: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Ryan Calo Ryan Calo is an American legal scholar and professor specializing in the intersection of law and emerging technologies, with a focus on robotics, artificial intelligence, privacy, and related policy c...

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Wow, talk about unprecedented.
The Fed Chairman makes official statement that the President is using criminal charges to threaten him over monetary policy.

AI & Technology Policy Lead Advisor in Seattle, WA | GovernmentJobs.com Apply for AI & Technology Policy Lead Advisor position in Seattle, WA through GovernmentJobs.com. Join our team and become a part of King County community.

Just came across this listing for an (AI and) tech policy lead at King County. I'm under-qualified I think, but @rcalo.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social, @techpolicylab.bsky.social can you amplify for other Seattle area tech policy folks? www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/5182127...

The woman ICE murdered was a poet 😔

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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...

Society + Technology After Hours: Who’s Watching? Privacy and Urban Surveillance at Halcyon Brewing Company in Seattle, WA - Monday, January 12 - EverOut Seattle Join Society + Technology After Hours on Monday, January 12, 2026, at 5:30 PM at Halcyon Brewery (8564 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103) for Who’s Watching? Privacy and Urban Surveillance, a convers...

Who's Watching? Privacy and Urban Surveillance. With experts from UW and NPR. everout.com/seattle/even... #seattle

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“Zervas remains single” 🙃

Wyden and Cox have said that section 230 protections probably don't apply to chatbot output anyway. The "generative" in "generative AI" means that the chatbot is (most of the time) not presenting content from others, but rather spewing up its own.

fortune.com/2023/09/07/a...

PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Welcomes Three Distinguished Members to its Board of Directors

We're thrilled to welcome three new privacy experts to our Board of Directors: @dbrody.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, and Katherine Strandburg! We're looking forward to their guidance as we continue fighting to protect the fundamental right to privacy in 2026. epic.org/press-releas...

If you’re in Seattle.

Live cameras are tracking faces in New Orleans. Who should control them? A private non-profit operates over 200 cameras with live facial recognition in New Orleans. The system raises questions about privacy, legal authority and who should control surveillance technology.

Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social was interviewed for an article titled “Live Cameras are Tracking Faces in New Orleans. Who Should Control Them?” published by @npr.org. Listen/read it here: www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n...

PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Welcomes Three Distinguished Members to its Board of Directors

Honored to join @epic.org’s board! 🙏 epic.org/press-releas...

X, not Grok, should apologize

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

The system is rigatoni’d

Can we talk about criminal responsibility for execs yet

Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show As regulators pressure Meta to verify the identity of advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a “playbook” to stall them. A Reuters investigation examines its tactics...

We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Contrast this with how this same administration has revoked visas for researchers studying how information ecosystems are manipulated (including by foreign actors like Russia). Seems strange that they welcome back the manipulators and attack those working to identify and call them out.