ABSTRACT
Robot technology may challenge privacy and data protection. Depending on the robot embodiment and its capabilities, some types will be more supported by evidence than others. For instance, person carriers might trigger behavioural and spatial privacy, because these robotic devices may record geolocation, and the behaviour of the person could be drawn from that data. Exoskeletons, however, since they are fastened to the body of the person, might affect the freedom of movement, in addition to the privacy that is linked to the body of the person that is being monitored. Social robots might trigger other types of privacy, e.g., the intellectual privacy and the conversational privacy that could be considered a subdivision of communicational privacy if the interaction is based on conversations, or the decisional privacy if the robot decides on behalf of the user in certain situations, which affects the intimate life of the person.
