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

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Testimonies
May 2022

Testimony of Daphne Keller to Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law

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Testimonies
October 2021

Written evidence submitted by Daphne Keller, Director of Program on Platform Regulation (OSB0057)

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Testimonies
July 2021

U.S. International Trade Commission Testimony

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In The News

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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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Q&A: Section 230 is at the Supreme Court. Here’s Why that Matters for Free Expression

Four legal experts, including PPR's Daphne Keller weigh in on two cases at the United States Supreme Court that could alter how the internet functions, how it is governed, and how users engage with it. Published in Freedom House.
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