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Panel Rejects Woman's Bid for Anonymity in Fraud Case
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and an expert on privacy issues, said the decision was "disappointing, but n…
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How Your Facebook Likes Could Cost You a Job
"And Danielle Citron, a law professor who has studied privacy, worries that data on people’s personalities could be stored and used in contexts they never…
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Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech?
"‘'We usually think of freedom of speech as enhancing liberty, but this is speech that takes away someone else’s liberty,'’ said Danielle Citron, a…
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Algorithms Are Great and All, But They Can Also Ruin Lives
"While it is clear why such emotive subjects would be considered ripe for The Formula, the central problem once again comes down to the spectral promise of…
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Victims Of Online Threats Say Perpetrators Aren't Being Caught
"The response Watson got is a little too common, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who has studied online harassment. Ci…
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What the Law Can (and Can't) Do About Online Harassment
"At its most basic legal definition, “cyber-stalking is a repeated course of conduct that’s aimed at a person designed to cause emotional distress and fear…
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The Future of Anonymity on the Internet Is Facebook Rooms
"“I think there’s definitely a pendulum swing, where we move and experiment with anonymity,” says Citron. “There’s certainly a destructive side to anonymit…
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Online Harassment Prevalent, Often by Strangers, Pew Study Finds
"“The gaming piece is not a surprise at all,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.…
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Why is it taking so long to identify the anonymous Gamergate trolls?
"That said, there’s a fairly standard process to investigating social media threats, said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland an…
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A Million Peeping Toms: When Hacking Is Also a Hate Crime
"“There is no denying the blunt truth of [Lawrence’s] words: she alone has the right to control access to her naked body, and anyone who violates that righ…
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Victims of Online Crimes Are Finally Getting Justice—as Long as They’re Rich and Famous
"Ordinary people have “a really difficult time getting law enforcement’s attention” in cases of online stalking, threats, and revenge porn, says Danielle C…
Just Because a Hate Crime Occurs on the Internet Doesn’t Mean It’s Not a Hate Crime
Cross-posted from Time. Let's talk about nude photo leaks and other forms of online harassment as what they are: civil rights violations Over the past few…