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Who Should Police the Internet?
"Days later, on Wednesday, October 16, privacy and constitutional law scholar Danielle Citron, a School of Law professor of law, joined a panel of industry…
Danielle Citron
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Most Deepfakes Are Porn, and They're Multiplying Fast
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at Boston University, describes pornographic deepfakes made without a person’s consent as an “invasion of sexual privacy.…
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LAW’s Danielle Citron Named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow
"Boston University’s Danielle Citron, whose pioneering and policy-shaping work in countering hate crimes, revenge porn, and other cyberspace abuses has mad…
How deepfakes undermind truth and threaten democracy
The use of deepfake technology to manipulate video and audio for malicious purposes -- whether it's to stoke violence or defame politicians and journalists…
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Q&A: LAW’s Danielle Citron Warns That Deepfake Videos Could Undermine the 2020 Election
Danielle Citron is worried. Deepfake videos are here—you may have watched one already and not even realized it—and they could undermine the 2020 presidential el…
Campaigns Must Prepare for Deepfakes: This Is What Their Plan Should Look Like
It is only a matter of time before maliciously manipulated or fabricated content surfaces of a major presidential candidate in 2020. The video manipulation of H…
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One state has banned unsolicited dick pics. Will it fix the problem?
"The law may also face trouble in court, experts say. Sending nude pictures “enjoys the protection of the First Amendment because it is not a true threat,…
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After manipulated Zuckerberg, Pelosi videos, lawmakers grasp for ‘deepfake’ answers
"“There are a few phenomena that come together that make deepfakes particularly troubling when they’re provocative and destructive,” Danielle Citron, a law…
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Schiff Calls ‘Deepfakes’ a Nightmarish Threat to 2020 Elections
"The law currently exempts online platforms such as Facebook for most content its users post, but Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Mar…
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Tackling the ‘Deep Fake,’ House Grasps for Solution to Doctored Videos
"Sharing Ayyub’s story with the committee, University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron noted that the journalist awoke to find her face had been…
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House holds hearing on "deepfakes" and artificial intelligence amid national security concerns
"Danielle Citron, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, testified that there's no finite way to stop deepfak…
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Big Tech's timid deepfake defense
""A deepfake could cause a riot; it could tip an election; it could crash an IPO. And if it goes viral, [social media companies] are responsible,"…