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Alleged Kidnapping Raises Questions About Online Harassment
""We often see people who torment domestic partners will torment them and terrorize them with any tool they have, and that is on and offline," Un…
Danielle Citron
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Anti-Defamation League Task Force Issues Recommendations to Stem Hate That Surged on Social Media During 2016 Presidential Campaign
"Danielle Citron, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland and member of the Task Force added, “The ADL Task Force lays out important suggestions for…
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Could a revenge porn case in Northern Ireland change Facebook across the planet?
""It is fairly easy for all these companies to figure out where all this data is coming from," Danielle Citron, who authored Hate Crimes in Cyber…
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Will tracking digital harassment help defend against internet trolls?
"The Justice Department prosecuted just 10 cyberstalking cases between 2009 and 2012, according to Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of…
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Feminist Jessica Valenti Quits Social Media After Rape Threat Against 5-Year-Old Daughter
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace who has spent several years interviewing Valenti ab…
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Twitter stirs debate as 'troll' banned over racist abuse
"Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor and author of a book "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," called the incident "a learning m…
(Un)Fairness of Risk Scores in Criminal Sentencing
In a ruling today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court sanctioned the use of COMPAS risk assessment scores about a defendant’s potential recidivism in sentencing, so lo…
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How technology disrupted the truth
"As the legal scholar and online-harassment expert Danielle Citron describes it, “people forward on what others think, even if the information is false, mi…
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Rape threats on a stranger’s Facebook photo could land a man in prison. Why that’s a big deal.
"While the legal treatment of online harassment differs from country to country, such incidents point to a growing and broader awareness among the public a…
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Legislating Against Revenge Porn: The Constitutional Pitfalls
"Revenge porn is a relatively new, yet extremely contentious topic. The act of violating someone's privacy in this manner, exposing their most intimate…
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Online anti-Semitism: Difficult to Fight, but Even Harder to Quantify
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and an expert on online harassment, is not sure whether online anti-Semitism is spreadin…
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Outing is totally still a thing, people
"“The fact is we have made some important progress with regard to the LGBT community; what 50 years ago was a crime is now in some states protected by anti…