Information technology lets people learn about one another on a scale previously unimaginable. Information in the wrong hands can be harmful. Scholars on this site consider problems of privacy, fraud, identity, and security posed by the digital age.
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Professor Danielle Citron is the inaugural director of the LawTech Center, a new scholarly center at the University of Virginia Law School.
September 29, 2021
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Privacy. Security. Risk. 2021
October 19, 2021, San Diego, CA
14th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Policing Families
October 28, 2021,
CITP Seminar: Ari Waldman – Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power
November 2, 2021,
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There are a number of privacy issues related to how online companies collect, store, use and share personally identifiable information; and how consumers are informed about what is done with their information online.
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“This is such a terrifying assault on intimate privacy. It incentivizes spying and exposure of women and girls and their intimate relationships and reproductive life that is unfathomably troubling.” — Danielle Citron, Professor of Law, University of Virginia
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Increasingly, nation-states censor speakers by co-opting the expertise of internet-based businesses like Google. Defending free speech means resisting this type of censorship, and protecting users from manipulative uses of data.
May 30, 2018
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