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Danielle Keats Citron

Invasion of privacy

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Criminalizing Revenge Porn, Danielle Keats Citron, Mary Anne Franks Dec 2013

Criminalizing Revenge Porn, Danielle Keats Citron, Mary Anne Franks

Danielle Keats Citron

Violations of sexual privacy, notably the non-consensual publication of sexually graphic images in violation of someone's trust, deserve criminal punishment. They deny subjects' ability to decide if and when they are sexually exposed to the public and undermine trust needed for intimate relationships. Then too they produce grave emotional and dignitary harms, exact steep financial costs, and increase the risks of physical assault. A narrowly and carefully crafted criminal statute can comport with the First Amendment. The criminalization of revenge porn is necessary to protect against devastating privacy invasions that chill self-expression and ruin lives.


Hate Crimes, Cyberbullying & The Rutgers Spy Cam Case, Danielle Citron Mar 2012

Hate Crimes, Cyberbullying & The Rutgers Spy Cam Case, Danielle Citron

Danielle Keats Citron

Interview on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WYYY Radio.


Mainstreaming Privacy Torts, Danielle Keats Citron Apr 2010

Mainstreaming Privacy Torts, Danielle Keats Citron

Danielle Keats Citron

In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis proposed a privacy tort and seventy years later, William Prosser conceived it as four wrongs. In both eras, privacy invasions primarily caused psychic and reputational wounds of a particular sort. Courts insisted upon significant proof due to those injuries’ alleged ethereal nature. Digital networks alter this calculus by exacerbating the injuries inflicted. Because humiliating personal information posted online has no expiration date, neither does individual suffering. Leaking databases of personal information and postings that encourage assaults invade privacy in ways that exact significant financial and physical harm. This dispels concerns that plaintiffs might …