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Civil Rights In The Cyber World, Danielle Citron
Civil Rights In The Cyber World, Danielle Citron
Danielle Keats Citron
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Fulfilling Government 2.0'S Promise With Robust Privacy Protections, Danielle Citron
Fulfilling Government 2.0'S Promise With Robust Privacy Protections, Danielle Citron
Danielle Keats Citron
The public can now “friend” the White House and scores of agencies on social networks, virtual worlds, and video-sharing sites. The Obama Administration sees this trend as crucial to enhancing governmental transparency, public participation, and collaboration. As the President has underscored, government needs to tap into the public’s expertise because it doesn’t have all of the answers. To be sure, Government 2.0 might improve civic engagement. But it also might produce privacy vulnerabilities because agencies often gain access to individuals’ social network profiles, photographs, videos, and contact lists when interacting with individuals online. Little would prevent agencies from using and …
Law's Expressive Value In Combating Cyber Gender Harassment, Danielle Citron
Law's Expressive Value In Combating Cyber Gender Harassment, Danielle Citron
Danielle Keats Citron
The online harassment of women exemplifies twenty-first century behavior that profoundly harms women yet too often remains overlooked and even trivialized. This harassment includes rape threats, doctored photographs portraying women being strangled, postings of women’s home addresses alongside suggestions that they should be sexually assaulted and technological attacks that shut down blogs and websites. It impedes women’s full participation in online life, often driving them offline, and undermines their autonomy, identity, dignity, and well-being. But the public and law enforcement routinely marginalize women’s experience, deeming it harmless teasing that women should expect, and tolerate, given the Internet’s Wild West norms …
Technological Due Process, Danielle Citron
Technological Due Process, Danielle Citron
Danielle Keats Citron
Today, computer systems terminate Medicaid benefits, remove voters from the rolls, exclude travelers from flying on commercial airlines, label (and often mislabel) individuals as dead-beat parents, and flag people as possible terrorists from their email and telephone records. But when an automated system rules against an individual, that person often has no way of knowing if a defective algorithm, erroneous facts, or some combination of the two produced the decision. Research showing strong psychological tendencies to defer to automated systems suggests that a hearing officer’s check on computer decisions will have limited value. At the same time, automation impairs participatory …
Survey Of The Law Of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2006-2007, Juliet Moringiello, William Reynolds
Survey Of The Law Of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2006-2007, Juliet Moringiello, William Reynolds
William L. Reynolds
In this annual survey, we discuss the electronic contracting cases decided between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. In the article, we discuss issues involving contract formation, procedural unconscionability, the scope of UETA and E-SIGN, and contracts formed by automated agents. We conclude that whatever doctrinal doubt judges and scholars may once have had about applying standard contract law to electronic transactions, those doubts have now been largely resolved, and that the decisions involving electronic contracts are following the general law of contracts pretty closely.
Cyber Civil Rights (November 2008; Mp3), Danielle Keats Citron
Cyber Civil Rights (November 2008; Mp3), Danielle Keats Citron
Danielle Keats Citron
Social networking sites and blogs have increasingly become breeding grounds for anonymous online groups that attack women, people of color, and members of other traditionally disadvantaged groups. These destructive groups target individuals with defamation, threats of violence, and technology-based attacks that silence victims and concomitantly destroy their privacy. Victims go offline or assume pseudonyms to prevent future attacks, impoverishing online dialogue and depriving victims of the social and economic opportunities associated with a vibrant online presence. Attackers manipulate search engines to reproduce their lies and threats for employers and clients to see, creating digital "scarlet letters" that ruin reputations. Today's …