Danielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and
op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms with our families and our
lovers in all the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable - and shows us that privacy as
we think we know it is largely already gone. The boundary that once protected our intimate
lives from outside interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st we have embraced
a vast array of technology that enables constant access and surveillance of the most private
aspects of our lives. From non-consensual pornography to online extortion to the sale of our
data for profit we are vulnerable to abuse. As Citron reveals wherever we live laws have
failed miserably to keep up with corporate or individual violators letting our privacy wash
out with the technological tide. And the erosion of intimate privacy in particular Citron
argues holds immense toxic power to transform our lives and our societies for the worse (and
already has). With vivid examples drawn from interviews with victims activists and lawmakers
from around the world The Fight for Privacy reveals the threat we face and argues urgently and
forcefully for a reassessment of privacy as a human right. And as a legal scholar and expert
Danielle Citron is the perfect person to show us the way to a happier better protected future.
