Danielle Keats Citron, ‘Sexual Privacy’

Abstract
Those who wish to expose, control, and distort the identities of women, minorities, and minors routinely do so by invading their privacy. People are secretly recorded in bedrooms and public bathrooms, and ‘up their skirts’. Victims are coerced into sharing nude photographs and filming sex acts under the threat of public disclosure. People’s nude images are posted online without permission. Machine-learning technology is used to create digitally manipulated ‘deep sex fake’ videos that swap people’s faces into pornography. At the heart of these abuses is an invasion of sexual privacy – the specific set of identity-enabling and equality-protecting rules and norms that protect access to and information about our bodies; intimate activities; and gender and sexual identities …

Citron, Danielle Keats, Sexual Privacy (August 17, 2018). Yale Law Journal, forthcoming; U of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No 2018-25.

First posted 2018-08-24 06:15:54

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