Daphne Keller

Daphne Keller

Daphne Keller

  • Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Cyber Policy Center
  • Lecturer, Stanford Law School

Biography

Daphne Keller's work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. She has testified before legislatures, courts, and regulatory bodies around the world, and published both academically and in popular press on topics including platform content moderation practices, constitutional and human rights law, copyright, data protection, and national courts' global takedown orders. Her recent work focuses on legal protections for users’ free expression rights when state and private power intersect, particularly through platforms’ enforcement of Terms of Service or use of algorithmic ranking and recommendations. Until 2020, Daphne was the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. She also served until 2015 as Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had primary responsibility for the company’s search products. Daphne has taught Internet law at Stanford, Berkeley, and Duke law schools. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start.

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PUBLICATIONS LIST

publications

Policy Briefs
December 2023

Amicus "Friend of the Court" Brief in NetChoice Supreme Court Case

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cover link Amicus "Friend of the Court" Brief in NetChoice Supreme Court Case
Policy Briefs
January 2023

Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

Author(s)
cover link Brief of American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, And Daphne Keller as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondant

In The News

Commentary

Internet Free Speech with Daphne Keller

Following the election of another Liberal Government, free speech and censorship will soon be back on the table. On this week’s No Nonsense, Tech Law Expert Daphne Keller on the problems of regulating online content.
cover link Internet Free Speech with Daphne Keller
Commentary

The Sunday Show: The Bad News on Internet Freedom

Tech Policy Press Podcast with contributions from Daphne Keller
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Commentary

Five Big Problems with Canada’s Proposed Regulatory Framework for “Harmful Online Content”

Article from Tech Policy Press by Daphne Keller
cover link Five Big Problems with Canada’s Proposed Regulatory Framework for “Harmful Online Content”