Lisa A. Hayes, Esq.

Lisa Hayes is the the head of safety, public policy and senior counsel for TikTok, where she helps the company develop and implement innovative policies that improve the platform for its users. Lisa has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of law and technology, with an emphasis on protecting civil liberties in the digital age. Before joining TikTok, Lisa helped lead the Center for Democracy and Technology, an NGO promoting democratic values by shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on the rights of the individual.

Before joining CDT, Lisa was on the leadership teams of the American Constitution Society and the Alliance for Justice, where her legal focus centered on constitutional law and policy. Earlier in her career, Lisa spent a decade in private practice in Seattle, where she was a partner in a law firm and general counsel to a start-up supporting the 1990s internet boom. She has served as lead counsel in more than a dozen trials and appeals, and successfully argued hundreds of motions. Her clients included a library system objecting the government’s seizure of computers to identify patron reading records, major technology companies involved in contractual disputes, and a variety of matters involving the intersection of criminal law and technology.

Lisa completed her J.D. at the University of Washington School of Law, where she was president of the Moot Court Honor Board, and an editor of the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Review. She received her B.A. in political science and communications from Boston University, cum laude.

Sub Specialities:

Technology policy, government surveillance, net neutrality, free speech online, internet of things, algorithmic bias, consumer privacy, cross-border data flows