Daphne Keller
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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Past articles by Daphne:
That time my husband reported me to the Facebook police: a case study
[Stanford's Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world's leading experts on "intermediary liability" -- that is, when an online service should be held responsible for the actions of this user. She brings us a delightful tale of Facebook's inability to moderate content at scale, which is as much of a tale… → Read More
SESTA and the Teachings of Intermediary Liability
SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, would overhaul US intermediary liability law and potentially expose hundreds of thousands of US platforms to new civil and criminal claims. Its exact legal consequences are uncertain, because the bill is so badly drafted that no one can agree on its meaning. But SESTA’s confusing language and poor policy choices, combined with platforms’ natural… → Read More
Policy Debates over EU Platform Liability Laws: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World
This is the last of four posts on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. In both cases, national courts held online news portals liable for comments posted by their users – even though the platforms did not know about the comments. Those rulings effectively required platforms to monitor and delete users’ online expression in order to avoid… → Read More
Litigating Platform Liability in Europe: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World
This is the third of four posts on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. In both cases, national courts held online news portals liable for comments posted by their users – even though the platforms did not know about them. These rulings effectively required platforms to monitor and delete user comments in order to avoid liability. The first… → Read More
Policing Online Comments in Europe: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World
This is the second of four posts on real-world consequences of the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. Both cases arose from national court rulings that effectively required online news portals to monitor users’ speech in comment forums. The first case, Delfi, condoned a monitoring requirement in a case involving threats and hate speech. The… → Read More
New Intermediary Liability Cases from the European Court of Human Rights: What Will They Mean in the Real World?
Last summer, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a serious setback to free expression on the Internet. The Court held, in Delfi v. Estonia, that a government could compel a news site to monitor its users’ online comments about articles.* This winter, the Court’s lower chamber ruled the other way in MTE v. Hungary – holding that a very similar order violated… → Read More
General Data Protection Regulation Seminar
RSVP is required for this free event. 4:00pm: Seminar begins 6:00pm: Close followed by drinks & appetizers Location: European Data Privacy Law is changing… a lot · EU General Data Protection Regulation · Privacy Shield After a lengthy legislative process, the GDPR is finally ready. As the most significant overhaul of data privacy laws in Europe in twenty years, it will have a profound impact on… → Read More
Intermediary Liability Fellow
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society seeks a full-time Intermediary Liability Fellow with experience in the field of legal protections for the expression and information rights of Internet users under constitutional or human rights frameworks. CIS’s work in this area ties intermediary liability legal regimes to the fundamental rights of Internet users. Poorly designed… → Read More
New EU Law Will Tell U.S. What Can Be Said — And Built — On the Internet
Americans have long been ignoring European data protection law, but it has not been ignoring us. → Read More