Khaliah Barnes

Khaliah Barnes is a Senior Manager for Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google, where she drives the public policy and advocacy strategy for user safety across Android, Chrome, Google Play, and Pixel. Her portfolio includes privacy, security, and emerging platform governance. Previously, she was a Privacy and Public Policy Manager at Meta. While there, she led strategy and public policy initiatives on U.S. federal and state privacy policy development and advocacy. Before joining Meta, she served two years as an Attorney Advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties. In this role, she advised Department components on privacy-related legal and policy issues, including data breach response, social media policy and guidelines, obligations under federal privacy laws, and privacy training. Khaliah began her career at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where she represented EPIC before Congress, federal courts, administrative agencies, and local and national media on a variety of issues, including student privacy, connected cars, air traveler rights, drones and domestic surveillance, and consumer privacy.