Issues of privacy and electronic personhood in robotics

Author

Günther, J. ; Münch, F. ; Beck, S. ; Löffler, S. ; Leroux, C. ; Labruto, R.

Author_Institution

Forschungsstelle RobotRecht (Res.-Center “Robot-Law”), Univ. of Wuerzburg, Wurzburg, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

9-13 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

815

Lastpage

820

Abstract

The sector of robotics develops rapidly at the moment. Law is not already prepared for the aspects coming with this new technology. This regards not only to research and development but also to application and use of this systems. Some legal areas like liability or admission are already debated at the moment. In this paper other crucial problems like privacy or legal status will be discussed. Issues of privacy regarding legal sources, basic principles and privacy in research and development will be focused on. Moreover, the use and application of robots will be analyzed. Additionally it concentrates on the status of robots and electronic personhood. Actions of software agents will be evaluated legally and the concept of electronic personhood will be introduced.

Keywords

data privacy; legislation; robots; software agents; electronic personhood; legal sources; legal status; privacy issues; research and development; robots; software agents; Contracts; Data privacy; Law; Privacy; Robots; Software agents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RO-MAN, 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Paris

ISSN

1944-9445

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4604-7

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9445

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2012.6343852

Filename

6343852