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Most Internet users are familiar with trolling -- aggressive, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site's comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people, subjecting them, by name and address, to vicious, often terrifying, online abuse. In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media, Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. A refutation of those who claim that these attacks are legal, or at least impossible to stop, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace reveals the serious emotional, professional, and financial harms incurred by victims.
About the Author
Danielle Keats Citron is the Lois K. Macht Research Professor & Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. Her work focuses on information privacy law, administrative law, and automated systems. Aside from writing for major law reviews, she is also a contributor to the New York Times, Slate, Time, and the Guardian. Professor Citron is an Affiliate Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center on Internet and Society. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and is on the Advisory Boards of privacy and civil liberty organizations like Electronic Privacy Information Center, Future of Privacy, Teach Privacy, and WIthout My Consent.
