Danielle Citron on Feminism and National Security
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Live from the #NatSecGirlSquad Conference in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2019, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Danielle Citron, professor of law at Boston University, VP of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, and MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow. Ben and Danielle talked about technology, sexual privacy, sextortion, and the previously unexplored intersections of feminism and cybersecurity.
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| 0:33.8 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast. |
| 0:40.1 | We are live for the second time at the National Security Girl Squad, the Natset Girl Squad |
| 0:46.8 | conference in Washington. |
| 0:49.3 | It is December 12th 2019 and I am here with Danielle Citron who has an enormous number |
| 0:58.4 | of great distinctions but since things are all about me, the first one of them is that |
| 1:03.7 | she's the only person who's ever managed to get me to write a Law Review article. |
| 1:08.2 | She is also more importantly a professor of law at Boston University, one of the truly |
| 1:15.2 | great deep thinkers on technology, sexual privacy, online content moderation, harassment |
| 1:26.2 | and the future ways that all these things are coming together in fashions that are quite |
| 1:33.2 | ugly and yes, as of the other day, she is a MacArthur grantee. |
| 1:40.2 | The thing we are not allowed to call on MacArthur Genius Award, she's actually got one. |
| 1:47.2 | So Danielle, welcome to Natset Girl Squad and welcome to the LawFair podcast. |
| 1:54.2 | It's even more fun than I thought to see you say the intro than just only hearing it. |
| 2:00.2 | I can't describe that excitement but it was really fun. |
| 2:04.2 | I want to start with how we met because I think it actually brings together the theme |
| 2:18.3 | that we're here to talk about. |
| 2:20.9 | I was thinking about the problem of remote attacks and I was thinking it started in the context |
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