The Fight for Privacy

Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age

By: Danielle Keats Citron

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers and stakeholders across the globe to protect what she calls intimate privacy—encompassing our bodies, health, gender, and relationships. When intimate privacy becomes data, corporations know exactly when to flash that ad for a new drug or pregnancy test. Social and political forces know how to manipulate what you think and who you trust, leveraging sensitive secrets and deepfake videos to ruin or silence opponents. And as new technologies invite new violations, people have power over one another like never before, from revenge porn to blackmail, attaching life-altering risks to growing up, dating online, or falling in love.

A masterful new look at privacy in the twenty-first century, The Fight for Privacy takes the focus off Silicon Valley moguls to investigate the price we pay as technology migrates deeper into every aspect of our lives: entering our bedrooms and our bathrooms and our midnight texts; our relationships with friends, family, lovers, and kids; and even our relationship with ourselves.

©2022 Danielle Citron (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Instrumental to fostering understanding

Incredible book, which raised my awareness of privacy related debates, legislation, violations, and actions taken within digital spaces. As a parent and fellow human being, I cannot empahiseize enough to review the resources provided at the end.

A Must Read Guide Regarding Privacy

This is a frightening look at privacy violations which have grown exponentially in the last several years. Revenge porn, deepfake software and hidden cameras in supposedly private places are just some of the nightmare scenarios people have been subjected to. A number of years ago there were few laws that would help victims, most notably women. While this still occurs, laws have been enacted in a number of countries around the world to try and stop these actions. While this helps, many are not stringent enough and more work needs to be done. Author Citron covers a wide ranging group of scenarios, cases, facts and more to educate and inform readers about their privacy and how much is being lost. She also offers a number of excellent tips that you can use to try and protect yourself. A book everyone should read.

The Modern Age Is A Minefield

Danielle Citron's The Fight For Privacy should be required reading in schools around the world. Women in particular ought to be reading this book because of how disproportionately high the impact of the exploitative bad acts of Internet-empowered individuals, corporations, and governments is on *them*.

Those who read this book would also do well to read Noam Chomsky's works on government behavior.

Thank you, Professor Citron, for this wonderful and timely book!