Daphne Keller
Daphne Keller
- Director of Program on Platform Regulation, Cyber Policy Center
- Lecturer, Stanford Law School
Biography
Popular press writing focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights in the U.S., EU, and around the world. Her recent work has focused on platform transparency, data collection for artificial intelligence, interoperability models, and “must-carry” obligations. She has testified before legislatures, courts, and regulatory bodies around the world on topics ranging from the practical realities of content moderation to copyright and data protection. She was previously Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had responsibility for the company’s web search products. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start.
SHORT PIECES
- The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform, Lawfare, other posts here
- Q&A with Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker
- Regulating Platform Risk and Design: ChatGPT Says the Quiet Part out Loud, Stanford Center for Internet and Society blog, other posts here
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
- Amplification and Its Discontents: Why Regulating the Reach of Online Speech is Hard
- Platform Transparency and the First Amendment
- Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users
- The Right Tools: Europe’s Intermediary Liability Laws and the GDPR
POLICY PUBLICATIONS
- The Long Reach of Taamneh: Carriage and Removal Requirements for Internet Platforms
- Making Middleware Work
- Who Do You Sue?
FILINGS
- U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of Francis Fukuyama, NetChoice v. Moody (2024)
- U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief with ACLU, Gonzalez v. Google (2023)
- Comment to European Commission on data access under EU Digital Services Act
- U.S. Senate testimony on platform transparency
