Margot E. Kaminski

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Margot E. Kaminski is a legal scholar whose research sits at the dynamic intersection of privacy law, emerging technology, and regulatory theory. Best known for her pioneering work on robotics and surveillance, Kaminski has helped shape how legal academics and policymakers think about the privacy implications of intelligent machines entering everyday life. Her widely discussed 2015 paper "Robots in the Home: What Will We Have Agreed To?" interrogates the consent frameworks consumers encounter when adopting domestic robots, while her 2017 essay "Averting Robot Eyes" takes a constructive turn, evaluating technological design solutions that could allow home robots to deliver their promised benefits without eroding user trust or causing privacy harms — work that has garnered 17 citations and remains a touchstone in robot law scholarship. Her 2015 piece "Regulating Real-World Surveillance" pushes further, exposing a critical gap in existing law: the absence of a coherent theory of privacy harm that could guide consistent legislative responses to private-party surveillance. Together, these contributions have earned Kaminski recognition as a foundational voice in technology law, offering frameworks that are both theoretically rigorous and practically urgent for an increasingly automated world.