{"id":1418,"date":"2014-03-27T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2014-03-27T14:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:00:48","slug":"peter-asaro-on-robots-micro-airspaces-and-the-future-of-public-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Peter Asaro on Robots, Micro-Airspaces, and the Future of &#8220;Public Space&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Asaro-Micro-Airspaces.pdf\">Robots, Micro-Airspaces, and the Future of &#8220;Public Space&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Peter Asaro<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1419\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1419\" alt=\"Peter Asaro\" src=\"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/asaro.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Asaro<\/p><\/div>In\u00a0<i>United States v. Causby<\/i>, the Supreme Court conceptualized airspace as a \u201cpublic highway.\u201d\u00a0 In the same decision, the Court recognized that landowners must be able to \u201cexercise exclusive control of the immediate reaches of the enveloping atmosphere\u201d in order to exercise full enjoyment of their property.\u00a0 The precise boundaries of public and private space have always been contested; however, the lack of clear legal definition of \u201cpublic space\u201d is increasingly problematic given the growing availability and use of drones.<\/p>\n<p>How should the law conceptualize \u201cpublic space\u201d in relation to drones and robots?\u00a0 Do drones present legitimately new issues for \u201cpublic space\u201d jurisprudence, or do they simply present issues of scale? Are there micro-airspaces surrounding individuals and special places that merit the recognition of an increased private interest in airspace?\u00a0 In what contexts should the law privatize or enclose portions of the \u201cpublic highway\u201d in favor of protecting privacy rights?\u00a0 How can the law reconcile a largely public airspace with diverse privacy expectations on the ground?\u00a0 Should there be restrictions on the use of thermal, infrared, millimeter, or other advanced sensor technologies in the airspaces around public and private spaces? And, to what extent can local and state authorities develop or effect tailored regulations surrounding personal and commercial use of airspace?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/public-engagement\/ma-media-studies-faculty\/?id=87854\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Asaro<\/a> will present\u00a0<em>Robots, Micro-Airspaces, and the Future of &#8220;Public Space&#8221;<\/em> on Saturday, April 5th at 3:15PM on the Panel on Domestic Drones with moderator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.stanford.edu\/profile\/f-daniel-siciliano\" target=\"_blank\">F. Daniel Siciliano<\/a> at the University of Miami Newman Alumni Center in Coral Gables, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots, Micro-Airspaces, and the Future of &#8220;Public Space&#8221;Peter Asaro In\u00a0United States v. Causby, the Supreme Court conceptualized airspace as a \u201cpublic highway.\u201d\u00a0 In the same decision, the Court recognized that landowners must be able to \u201cexercise exclusive control of the immediate reaches of the enveloping atmosphere\u201d in order to exercise full enjoyment of their property.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations-april-5","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1545,"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robots.law.miami.edu\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}