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Danielle Citron

@daniellecitron.bsky.social

Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) πŸ‹

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As someone in the T1D family this hits hard (as does so much of all of ICE depravity). This cannot recur.

07.03.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1000000 percent. Breathtaking.

05.03.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you feel the need to write articles using AI, please find another job. Your students and colleagues deserve a lot better.

05.03.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 215    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4

Co-sponsored by the Internet Archive & Authors Alliance.

@RCalo.bsky.social @archive.org @authorsalliance.bsky.social #LawAndTechnology #DigitalRights #TechPolicy

05.03.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Promotional graphic for a β€œLaw and Technology” book talk featuring headshots of Ryan Calo and Danielle Citron, with teal and gray design elements and an illustration of stacked books. Event text reads β€œMarch 26th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, ONLINE,” inviting viewers to a book talk on Ryan Calo’s Law and Technology, with the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance logos. To the far right is the book cover of "Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach" by Ryan Calo, featuring a bronze Roman dodecahedra beneath the title.

Promotional graphic for a β€œLaw and Technology” book talk featuring headshots of Ryan Calo and Danielle Citron, with teal and gray design elements and an illustration of stacked books. Event text reads β€œMarch 26th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, ONLINE,” inviting viewers to a book talk on Ryan Calo’s Law and Technology, with the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance logos. To the far right is the book cover of "Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach" by Ryan Calo, featuring a bronze Roman dodecahedra beneath the title.

🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨

Join us for Ryan Calo’s LAW AND TECHNOLOGY, exploring a clear framework for governing tech & defending rights in the digital age. Ryan will be in conversation with legal expert Danielle Citron.

πŸ“† Thurs Mar 26
πŸ•™ 10 AM PT
πŸ“ Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kno...

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05.03.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

04.03.2026 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4802    πŸ” 1483    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 154
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What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

03.03.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1436    πŸ” 795    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 163
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Powerful testimony by @ariezra.bsky.social before the California state assembly about surveillance capitalism’s impact on marginalized communities especially queer kids. @cybercivilrights.bsky.social

03.03.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The technology of surveillance is … like it says, the technology of surveillance. When governments can pay to tap into corporate webs of surveillance, what results differs little from a surveillance network under direct government control.

03.03.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My contribution to the Solan symposium is "Pragmatics and Textualism," a deep dive into the role of context in the interpretation of statutes. Link: bit.ly/PragmaticsAn...

03.03.2026 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NYC Council pushes to ban stores from collecting biometric data Stores like Macy's and Wegmans use facial recognition software to track customers in New York City.

β€œNew York City already requires businesses to post signs notifying customers when they collect biometric data, but the proposed legislation would make it against the rules entirely.”

03.03.2026 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

01.03.2026 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 18250    πŸ” 3474    πŸ’¬ 381    πŸ“Œ 171
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Bright spot seeing CCRI President @maryannefranks.bsky.social honored with the NAACP Digital Civil Rights Award!

28.02.2026 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

-- Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)

26.02.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chatbots overemphasize sociodemographic stereotypes, researchers report | Penn State University Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, which can be trained to reflect certain demographic attributes such as race or ethnicity, rely on superficial stereotypes that diminish the authentic experien...

β€œThe researchers found that chatbots relied on superficial stereotypes and exaggerated cultural markers that diminish the authentic experiences of the humans they’re meant to represent.”

26.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 11
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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig...

And right on schedule: there goes pseudonymity on the Internet. arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

25.02.2026 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 12

Heads up, folks. You have calls to make!

23.02.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 398    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 8

At some point we have to face the sad truth that this array of Administration miscreants are living their HS fantasies. Under what other circumstances would a group of athletes welcome this guy into a locker room celebration?

23.02.2026 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1843    πŸ” 449    πŸ’¬ 138    πŸ“Œ 10

They all just wanted in on it.

β€œSwamp,” my ass.

23.02.2026 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3170    πŸ” 750    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 13
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β€˜Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, β€˜If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

21.02.2026 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7242    πŸ” 4210    πŸ’¬ 250    πŸ“Œ 631

Add this to research that suggests that as Musk took over Twitter (but before Twitter became X), the algorithm there was serving up content that leaned markedly to the right, even for users whose networks leaned left. www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.06129

19.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some cities are ditching license plate readers over immigration surveillance concerns Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents can access local data are driving these debates.

Another example of why I hate so much the folks who tell us this stuff is inevitable.

It doesn’t have to be this way!

Often when communities see the stakes, they reject ubiquitous surveillance.

19.02.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 648    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

19.02.2026 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 11209    πŸ” 3143    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 139
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The Gendered History of Defamation Law Jessica Lake, a senior lecturer at Melbourne Law School in Australia, discussed her latest book, β€œSpecial Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law.” Professor Danielle C

LISTEN: In a talk hosted by #UVALaw’s LawTech Center, Jessica Lake, a senior lecturer at Melbourne Law School, discusses her book on the gendered history of defamation law.

17.02.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.

17.02.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1270    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 6
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Study Reveals the Elite Lawyers Dominating the Supreme Court Docket | Law.com A group of law professors have tabulated the most successful Supreme Court lawyers when it comes to getting the justices to agree to hear their cases.

In a new co-authored research paper, Prof. Mitu Gulati finds that an elite group of attorneys have an outsized success rate in getting certiorari granted at #SCOTUS.

17.02.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here we go.

15.02.2026 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 212    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 5
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John Lim ’27 To Lead Virginia Law Review John Lim, a second-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, will soon take over as editor-in-chief of the student-run Virginia Law Review.

The Virginia Law Review has a new leadership team. Incoming Editor-in-Chief John Lim ’27 shares his goals for the coming year.

16.02.2026 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.

14.02.2026 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3622    πŸ” 775    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 21
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

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