Drones and robots are or soon will be watching you, driving you, delivering to you, and maybe even trying to kill you. They’re loud, nosy, deadly, useful, safe, and dangerous. There are many different kinds of them and many different kinds of us. What should we do when, say, a man shoots a camera-bearing drone out of the sky above his property? Or when a creditor remotely shuts down your car when you’re behind on your payments but, unfortunately, while you’re on the highway? For some answers and more questions, we chat with delightfully deep-thinking Frank Pasquale.

This show’s links:


Frank Pasquale’s faculty profile and writing
Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society
Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo)
Robot or Not?, a podcast of one to two-minute episodes
Jeff John Roberts, Man Arrested for Shooting $1,800 Drone Won’t Apologize, Cites Privacy
DJI, drone purveyor, which company’s name Christian managed to mangle, Joe-style
Michael Froomkin and Zak Colangelo, Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones
Frank Pasquale, Air Traffic Control for Drones
Jacque v. Sternberg Homes, Inc.
Desnick v. ABC
United States v. Causby
Hinman v. Pacific Air Transport
See, e.g., Field v. Google (on copyright claims against Google for search results)
Margot Kaminsky, Drone Federalism: Civilian Drones and the Things They Carry
Thomas Frey, 55 Jobs of the Future
Timothy Lee, Amazon Has a Plan for Thousands of Drones to Fill the Sky
Yoko Kubota, Google Reshoots Japan Views after Privacy Complaints
The FAA’s interpretive rules for recreational drones (line-of-sight and less than 400 feet, among other restrictions) and proposed rules for commercial drones (including weight limitations, line-of-sight, daylight-only, less than 500 feet, and more)
Foster v. Svenson (finding no statutory privacy right to prevent artistic show of photographs taken unsuspecting through open windows via telephoto lens)
AP, Enrique Iglesias Recovering After Fingers Sliced at Concert, video
Patrick Hubbard, 'Sophisticated Robots': Balancing Liability, Regulation, and Innovation
99% Invisible 170: Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1); see also part 2
Turn Your Key, Sir!
Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone
Frank Pasquale, Do Corporations Enjoy a 2nd Amendment Right to Drones?
Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale, The Spectrum of Control: A Social Theory of the Smart City
Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale, Creditors Use New Devices to Put Squeeze on Debtors
Dale Carrico, We Are the Killer Robots; see also Dale Carrico, Natality, Tech “Disruption,” and Killer Robots
Mary Ellen O’Connell, 21st Century Arms Control Challenges: Drones, Cyber Weapons, Killer Robots, and WMDs
Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, One Nation Under Guard; see also Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, Garrison America
Frank Pasquale and Glyn Cashwell, Four Futures of Legal Automation
Special Guest: Frank Pasquale.