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

Blogs
February 2024

FAQs About the NetChoice Cases at the Supreme Court, Part 2

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Blogs
February 2024

Texas, Florida, and the Magic Speech Sorting Hat in the NetChoice Cases

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cover link Texas, Florida, and the Magic Speech Sorting Hat in the NetChoice Cases
Blogs
January 2024

The NetChoice Cases Aren't About Discrimination

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In The News

News

Legislative Approaches to Combating Online Harms to Children

A guide to the approaches adopted or proposed by legislators to protect children from online harms.
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The Right Honorable Jacinda Ardern and a delegation from the Christchirch Call joined Stanford researchers at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies for a roundtable discussion on technology governance and regulation.
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Special Envoy Jacinda Ardern Assembles Stanford Scholars for Discussion on Technology Governance and Regulation

Led by former Prime Minister of New Zealand Rt. Hon. Dame Jacinda Ardern, a delegation from the Christchurch Call joined Stanford scholars to discuss how to address the challenges posed by emerging technologies.
cover link Special Envoy Jacinda Ardern Assembles Stanford Scholars for Discussion on Technology Governance and Regulation
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Q&As

Stanford’s Daphne Keller on SCOTUS Decision that Google, Twitter, and Facebook not Responsible for Islamic State Deadly Posts

Q&A with Daphne Keller. Published by the Stanford Law School
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