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The Spark: Danielle Citron on intimate privacy

Danielle Citron on intimate privacy

BBC Radio 4 - The Spark, Danielle Citron on intimate privacy

Helen Lewis presents a new series of encounters with innovative thinkers.

Helen Lewis returns with a new series of encounters with innovative thinkers. In this episode, she meets Danielle Citron, author of The Fight for Privacy.

Helen Lewis presents a new series of encounters with innovative thinkers.

In this episode, she meets Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Virginia, and the author of The Fight for Privacy.

The release into the public domain of digital images such as nude photographs, and private information points gathered  online without the user's awareness, can cause their subjects serious trauma. 

But, Citron argues, the radical technological developments of the last few years have left the law behind. 

She tells Helen why she contends that it is now vital - as in the US, so in the UK - to establish a new right to 'intimate privacy'.

Producer: Phil Tinline

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