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Danielle K. Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor of Law and Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she writes and teaches about privacy, free expression and civil rights. She serves as the inaugural director of the Law School's LawTech Center and is a nationally recognized expert on cyberstalking, intimate privacy, and online abuse.
Her research focuses on privacy law, free expression, civil rights in the digital age, and the regulation of online platforms. Citron has published more than 60 law review articles in prestigious journals including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. Her work on intimate privacy and cyber harassment has been cited by state and federal courts, federal regulations, and White House reports. She has authored two influential books: The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014).
Citron's recent scholarship shows a clear trend toward examining privacy in the post-Roe landscape, youth privacy protections, content moderation frameworks, and the intersection of national security with digital rights. Her work increasingly addresses the challenges posed by emerging technologies like AI and deepfakes while maintaining her foundational focus on protecting vulnerable populations from online harms.
- MacArthur Fellow (2019)
- No. 1 Legal Scholar among Top 100 Law Scholars of 2024
- 2024 IAPP Privacy Leader
Citron has advised numerous technology companies and government entities, serving on Facebook's Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery Task Force (2018-2021), advising Twitter (2009-2022), TikTok (2020-2023), and Twitch (2024). During the Biden administration, she served as an adviser to the White House Gender Policy Council. She has testified before Congress about deepfakes and the Communications Decency Act and served as an adviser to California Attorney General Kamala Harris from 2014-2016. Her TED talk on deepfakes has garnered over 3.5 million views, demonstrating her ability to translate complex legal concepts for broader audiences.
