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Danielle Citron#Selected works

{{Short description|American law professor}}

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| workplaces = University of Virginia School of Law

| alma_mater = Duke University (BA)
Fordham University (JD)

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| main_interests = Privacy, Civil Rights, Gender and the Law

| major_works = "'Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" (2014)
"The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (2022)

| awards = MacArthur Fellow (2019)
Fastcase 50 Award Honoree (2022)
Top 50 World Thinkers (Prospect Magazine UK, 2015)

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Danielle Keats Citron is a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches information privacy, free expression, and civil rights law.{{Cite web |date=2020-12-01 |title=Danielle K. Citron |url=https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/uqg7tt/2964150 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=University of Virginia School of Law |language=en}} Citron is the author of "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (forthcoming October 2022) and "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" (2014).{{Cite web |title=The Fight for Privacy |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=wwnorton.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Hate Crimes in Cyberspace — Danielle Keats Citron |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674659902 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=www.hup.harvard.edu |language=en}} She also serves as Vice President and Secretary of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, an organization that provides assistance and legislative support to victims of image-based sexual abuse and other forms of online abuse.{{Cite web|title=What We Do: Cyber Civil Rights Initiative|url=https://www.cybercivilrights.org/our-services/|access-date=2021-01-18|archive-date=2021-01-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122221400/https://www.cybercivilrights.org/our-services/|url-status=dead}} Prior to joining UVA Law, Citron was an Austin B. Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Law at Boston University Law School, and was also the Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law.{{Cite web |title=Danielle Citron Joins BU Law |url=https://www.bu.edu/law/record/articles/2019/danielle-citron-joins-bu-law/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=www.bu.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Profile: Danielle Citron |url=http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty.html?facultynum=028 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402205920/https://www.law.umaryland.edu/Directory/profile.asp?id=028#tab-2 |archive-date=2019-04-02 |url-status=unfit |access-date=2022-11-01|work=University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law}}{{cbignore}}

Biography

Citron graduated from Duke University, and the Fordham University School of Law.{{Cite web |date=2020-12-01 |title=Danielle K. Citron |url=https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/uqg7tt/2964150 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=University of Virginia School of Law |language=en}}

She is an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society,{{cite web|url=http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/danielle-citron|title=Danielle Citron, Affiliate Scholar|work=Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University}} an Affiliate Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project,{{cite web|url=https://law.yale.edu/isp/community|title=Danielle Citron, Affiliated Fellows|work=Yale Information Society Project}} a Tech Fellow at NYU's Policing Project, and a member of the Principles Group for the Harvard-MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fund.{{Cite web |title=Danielle Citron |url=https://www.policingproject.org/danielle-citron |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=The Policing Project |language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://aiethicsinitiative.org/|title=AI Initiative|website=AI Initiative|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-03}}

Citron is the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014){{Cite web|title=Hate Crimes in Cyberspace — Danielle Keats Citron|url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674659902|access-date=2021-01-18|website=www.hup.harvard.edu|language=en}} which was named one of the “20 Best Moments for Women in 2014” by Cosmopolitan magazine.{{Cite web |last=Filipovic |first=Jill |author-link=Jill Filipovic |date=2014-12-03 |title=The 20 Best Moments for Women in 2014 |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a33754/best-moments-for-women-in-2014/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=Cosmopolitan |language=en-US}} Her second book [https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315 The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age] will be released in October 2022.{{Cite web |title=The Fight for Privacy |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=wwnorton.com |language=en}}

In 2017, she was elected as a member of the American Law Institute{{Cite web|url=https://www.ali.org/members/newly-elected-members/|title=Newly Elected Members {{!}} American Law Institute|website=American Law Institute|access-date=2017-10-02}} and currently serves on the Advisory Board of ALI's Information Privacy Principles Project.{{cite web |url=http://www.ali.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.members&projectid=30#ADV |title=Current Projects, Principles of the Law, Data Privacy |work=The American Law Institute |access-date=2015-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420125618/http://www.ali.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.members&projectid=30#ADV |archive-date=2015-04-20 |url-status=dead }} She is the Vice President and Board Member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a civil rights and civil liberties project named after her article Cyber Civil Rights (Boston U Law Review, 2009).{{Cite web |title=CCRI Board of Directors |url=https://cybercivilrights.org/about/board-of-directors/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=Cyber Civil Rights Initiative |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Citron |first=Danielle |date= February 2009|title=Cyber Civil Rights |url=https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/617/ |journal=Boston University Law Review |volume=89 |issue=61 |pages=61–125 |via=Scholarly Commons at Boston University School of Law}} She serves on the advisory board of Teach Privacy{{Cite news|url=https://www.teachprivacy.com/our-expertise/#advisory-board|title=Privacy Training {{!}} Data Security Training {{!}} Professor Daniel Solove Bio|work=TeachPrivacy|access-date=2017-09-29|language=en-US}} and Without My Consent.{{cite web|url=http://withoutmyconsent.org/who-we-are/advisory-board | title=Advisory Board |work=Without My Consent | access-date = 2015-04-21}} She serves on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council,{{Cite web|url=https://about.twitter.com/en_us/safety/safety-partners.html|title=Twitter Safety Partners|access-date=2017-09-29}} and the Board of Directors for the Future of Privacy Forum.{{Cite web|url=https://fpf.org/|title=Future of Privacy Forum|website=fpf.org|access-date=2019-03-03}} She sits on the Electronic Privacy Information Center's Board of Directors, and was the Chair of the Board from 2017 through 2019.{{Cite web |title=EPIC Board and Staff |url=https://epic.org/about/staff/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center |language=en-US}} In 2019, Citron was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work in cyber harassment.{{cite web |title=Danielle Citron: Legal Scholar, Class of 2019 |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1032/ |website=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=25 September 2019}}

Citron is an expert on online harassment,{{cite web|url=http://thedailyrecord.com/2015/02/27/danielle-citron/|title=Danielle Citron|work=Maryland Daily Record|date=27 February 2015}}{{Cite web| last1 = Rodricks| first1 = Dan | author1-link = Dan Rodricks | last2 = Himowitz| first2 = Mike| title = Hate Crimes in Cyberspace| work = Midday with Dan Rodricks. WYPR/NPR| access-date = 2015-04-11| date = 2014-12-15| url = http://wypr.org/post/hate-crimes-cyberspace}} and has written for The New York Times,{{Cite news| last = Citron| first = Danielle| title = Free Speech Does Not Protect Cyberharassment| work = The New York Times| date = December 3, 2014| access-date = 2015-04-21| url = https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/08/19/the-war-against-online-trolls/free-speech-does-not-protect-cyberharassment}} Slate,{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/authors.danielle_citron.html|title=Danielle Citron, Contributor|work=Slate}} The Atlantic,{{Cite news| last = Citron | first = Danielle & Woodrow Hartzog| title = The Decision That Could Finally Kill the Revenge-Porn Business| work = The Atlantic| date = February 3, 2015| access-date = 2015-04-21| url = https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/the-decision-that-could-finally-kill-the-revenge-porn-business/385113/}} The New Scientist,{{Cite news| last = Citron| first = Danielle| title = To defeat trolls, we need to do more than jail them| work = The New Scientist| date = October 22, 2014| access-date = 2015-04-21| url = https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26433-to-defeat-trolls-we-need-to-do-more-than-jail-them.html#.VTZUUxPF_GI}} Time,{{Cite magazine| last = Citron| first = Danielle| title = Just Because a Hate Crime Occurs on the Internet Doesn't Mean It's Not a Hate Crime| magazine = Time | date = October 7, 2014| access-date = 2015-04-21| url = https://time.com/3513763/anita-sarkeesian-hate-crimes/}} and Al Jazeera.{{Cite news| last = Citron| first = Danielle| title = Expand harassment laws to protect victims of online abuse| work = Al Jazeera| date = March 21, 2015| access-date = 2015-04-21| url = http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/expand-harassment-laws-to-protect-victims-of-online-abuse.html}} She has been a guest on The Diane Rehm Show, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and Slate{{'}}s The Gist podcast.{{Cite web| title = Women And Online Harassment| work = The Diane Rehm Show | access-date = 2015-04-19 | url = http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-10-22/women-and-online-harassment}}{{Cite web| title = Digital Dualism: The Fading Distinction Between Life On And Off Line - The Kojo Nnamdi Show| work = The Kojo Nnamdi Show| access-date = 2015-04-19| date = 2015-03-24| url = http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2015-03-24/digital-dualism-the-fading-distinction-between-life-on-and-off-line}}{{Cite magazine| last = Pesca| first = Mike| title = The Gist discusses online threats with Danielle Citron, and musical fades with William Weir| magazine = The Gist, Episode 100| date = 25 September 2014| access-date = 2015-04-19| url = http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/gist/2014/09/the_gist_discusses_online_threats_with_danielle_citron_and_musical_fades.html}} She is also a Forbes contributor.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/daniellecitron/|title=Danielle Citron, Contributor|work=Forbes}} She has authored over 50 law review articles,{{Cite web |title=Author Page for Danielle Keats Citron :: SSRN |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=463718 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=papers.ssrn.com}} and she is ranked number 72 out of the 250 most-cited scholars on Hein Online.{{Cite web |title=ScholarRank |url=https://home.heinonline.org/tools/author-profile-pages/scholarrank/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=HeinOnline}}

Citron helped Maryland State Senator Jon Cardin draft a bill criminalizing the non-consensual publication of nude images, which was passed into law in 2014.{{Cite news |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-cyber-gender-harassment-20131214-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160715072002/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-cyber-gender-harassment-20131214-story.html |archive-date=2016-07-15 |url-status=dead |title=Revenge porn: A pernicious form of cyber gender harassment [Commentary] |last=Citron |first=Danielle Keats |newspaper=Baltimore Sun |access-date=2022-11-01}} From 2014 to December 2016, Citron served as an advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris (then California Attorney General).{{Cite news|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/california-ag-goes-all-out-to-fight-revenge-porn/|title=California AG goes all-out to fight "revenge porn"|work=Ars Technica|access-date=2017-09-29|language=en-us}} She served as a member of Harris's Task Force to Combat Cyber Exploitation and Violence Against Women.{{Cite news|url=https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-tech-leaders-and-advocates-launch-offensive|title=Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, Tech Leaders and Advocates Launch Offensive in Fight Against Cyber Exploitation|date=2015-10-14|work=State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General|access-date=2017-09-29|language=en}}

Citron is a critic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, stating that it gives online platforms a "free pass" from having to do moderation, while market forces are driving a rise of "salacious, negative, and novel content" on the Internet.{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/section-230-cda-moderation-update.html|title=Tech Companies Get a Free Pass on Moderating Content. It's Time to Change That.|last=Citron|first=Danielle|date=2019-10-16|website=Slate|access-date=2019-10-19}} In a 2017 Fordham Law Review article with Benjamin Wittes, Citron argued that "the internet will not break [from] denying bad samaritans § 230 immunity".{{Cite journal|last1=Citron|first1=Danielle|last2=Wittes|first2=Benjamin|author-link=Benjamin Wittes|date=2017-11-01|title=The Internet Will Not Break: Denying Bad Samaritans § 230 Immunity|url=https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol86/iss2/3|journal=Fordham Law Review|volume=86|issue=2|pages=401}} At a House Intelligence Committee hearing in June 2019 {{Cite web |title=Professor Citron Testifies Before Congress on "Deep Fakes" |url=https://epic.org/professor-citron-testifies-before-congress-on-deep-fakes/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center |language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/13/18677847/deep-fakes-regulation-facebook-adam-schiff-congress-artificial-intelligence|title=Congress grapples with how to regulate deepfakes|last=Kelly|first=Makena|date=2019-06-13|website=The Verge|access-date=2019-06-18}} and at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in October 2019,{{Cite web |title=Internet and Consumer Protection {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?465331-1/google-reddit-officials-testify-internet-consumer-protection |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=www.c-span.org}} Citron proposed the conditioning of Section 230 protection on "reasonable" content moderation practices. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called this proposition "terrifying", arguing it would lead to excessive litigation risks, especially for small businesses.{{Cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/reddit-google-230-congress-8b93070a-2f81-42bf-9cdb-8c86e44e6e55.html|title=House lawmakers take aim at law protecting Reddit, Google from user-generated content liability|last=Harding McGill|first=Margaret|date=2019-10-16|website=Axios|language=en|access-date=2019-10-19}} On the other hand, Citron has expressed partial agreement with critics of the 2018 FOSTA act, in particular with regard to uncertainties resulting from the law's "knowing facilitation" standard.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fosta-new-anti-sex-trafficking-legislation-may-not-end-internet-its-not-good-law-either|title=FOSTA: The New Anti-Sex-Trafficking Legislation May Not End the Internet, But It's Not Good Law Either|date=2018-03-28|website=Lawfare|language=en|access-date=2019-10-19}}

Books

  • Danielle Keats Citron (forthcoming October 2022). [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fight-for-privacy-danielle-keats-citron/1140914135 The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in our Digital Age]. Chatto & Windus. {{ISBN|9781784744847}}{{Cite web |title=The Fight for Privacy |url=https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315 |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=wwnorton.com |language=en}}
  • {{cite book|author=Danielle Keats Citron|title=Hate Crimes in Cyberspace|url=https://archive.org/details/hatecri_cit_2014_00_5746|url-access=registration|date=2014|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-36829-3}} {{Cite news| last = Quarmby| first = Katherine| title = Hate Crimes in Cyberspace by Danielle Keats Citron review – the internet is a brutal place| work = The Guardian | date = September 26, 2014| access-date = 2015-04-11| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/26/hate-crimes-in-cyberspace-danielle-keats-citron-review}}{{Cite web| last = Chemaly| first = Soraya| title = "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" author: "Everyone is at risk, from powerful celebrities to ordinary people"| work = Salon.com| access-date = 2015-04-11| date = 2014-09-02| url = http://www.salon.com/2014/09/02/hate_crimes_in_cyberspace_author_everyone_is_at_risk_from_the_most_powerful_celebrity_to_the_ordinary_person/}}{{Cite web| last = Hill| first = Kashmir| title = How To Keep Internet Trolls And Harassers From Winning| work = Forbes| access-date = 2015-04-19| date = 2014-08-21| url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/08/21/how-to-keep-internet-trolls-and-harassers-from-winning/}}{{Cite news |last = Nussbaum |first = Martha C. |author-link = Martha Nussbaum |title = Haterz Gonna Hate?| work = The Nation| access-date = 2015-04-11| date = 2014-11-05| url = http://www.thenation.com/article/188345/haterz-gonna-hate}}

Awards

  • 2024 International Association of Privacy Professionals Leadership Award{{Cite web|url = https://iapp.org/about/iapp-announces-2024-privacy-award-winners/|title = IAPP Announces 2024 Privacy Award Winners}}
  • 2019 MacArthur Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1032/|title = Danielle Citron}}
  • Fastcase 50 2022 Honoree{{Cite web |title=Fastcase Announces 2022 Fastcase 50 Award Honorees {{!}} Fastcase |url=https://www.fastcase.com/blog/fastcase-announces-2022-fastcase-50-award-honorees/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |language=en-US}}
  • UMB 2018 Champion of Excellence{{Cite web|url=https://www.umaryland.edu/champions/2017-18-champions/protecting-privacy-in-the-digital-age/|title = Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age}}
  • 2018 Privacy for Policymakers Best Paper Award for "[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3233805 Sexual Privacy]"{{Cite web|url=https://fpf.org/2018/12/17/this-years-must-read-privacy-papers-the-future-of-privacy-forum-announces-recipients-of-annual-privacy-papers-for-policymakers-award/|title = This Year's Must-Read Privacy Papers: The Future of Privacy Forum Announces Recipients of Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award - Future of Privacy Forum}}
  • 2016 Privacy for Policymakers Best Paper Award for "[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2733297 The Privacy Policymaking of State Attorneys General]" and "[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2885638 Risk and Anxiety: A Theory of Data Breach Harms]" (coauthored with Daniel J. Solove){{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/2019annual-privacy-law-scholars-conference/plsc-paper-awards/|title = PLSC Paper Awards}}
  • Best Paper of 2016, International Association of Privacy Practitioners for "[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2733297 The Privacy Policymaking of State Attorneys General]"{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/2019annual-privacy-law-scholars-conference/plsc-paper-awards/|title = PLSC Paper Awards}}
  • Best Paper of 2014, International Association of Privacy Practitioners for "[https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/1431/ The Scored Society]" (coauthored with Frank Pasquale){{Cite web|url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/bclt/bcltevents/2019annual-privacy-law-scholars-conference/plsc-paper-awards/|title = PLSC Paper Awards}}
  • Top 50 World Thinkers, 2015, Prospect UK magazine (naming 50 "leaders in their fields, engaging in original and profound ways with the central questions of the world today—whether in economics, science, philosophy, religion or feminism. We chose them based on recommendations from our wide pool of writers and editors").{{cite magazine |url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/world-thinkers-2015-danielle-keats-citron |title=World Thinkers 2015: Danielle Keats Citron |date=February 16, 2015 |magazine=Prospect |place=London}}
  • Top 50 Most Influential Marylanders, 2015, Maryland Daily Record{{Cite web|url=http://thedailyrecord.com/influential-marylanders/|title = Influential Marylanders|date = 10 December 2021}}

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