19 Facts About Danielle Citron

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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.

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Danielle Citron is the author of "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" and "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" .

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Danielle Citron's serves as the Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, an organization which provides assistance and legislative support to victims of online abuse.

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Danielle Citron graduated from Duke University, and the Fordham University School of Law.

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Danielle Citron's is an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, an Affiliate Fellow at the 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 Fund.

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Danielle Citron is the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace which was named one of the “20 Best Moments for Women in 2014” by Cosmopolitan magazine.

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Danielle Citron's 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 .

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Danielle Citron's serves on the advisory board of Teach Privacy and Without My Consent.

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Danielle Citron's serves on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, and the Board of Directors for the Future of Privacy Forum.

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Danielle Citron's sits on the Electronic Privacy Information Center's Board of Directors, and was the Chair of the Board from 2017 through 2019.

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In 2019, Danielle Citron was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her work in cyber harassment.

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Danielle Citron is an expert on online harassment, and has written for The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The New Scientist, Time, and Al Jazeera.

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Danielle Citron's has been a guest on The Diane Rehm Show, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, and Slates The Gist podcast.

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Danielle Citron's has authored over 50 law review articles, and she is ranked number 71 out of the 250 most-cited scholars on Hein Online.

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Danielle Citron helped Maryland State Senator Jon Cardin draft a bill criminalizing the nonconsensual publication of nude images, which was passed into law in 2014.

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From 2014 to December 2016, Danielle Citron served as an advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris .

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Danielle Citron's served as a member of Harris's Task Force to Combat Cyber Exploitation and Violence Against Women.

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Danielle 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.

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At a House Intelligence Committee hearing in June 2019 and at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in October 2019, Danielle Citron proposed the conditioning of Section 230 protection on "reasonable" content moderation practices.

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